Shasta
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 227 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,320since 1926
Shasta over time
Rank among girls' names. Shasta has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,125 | 63 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,810 | 79 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,922 | 73 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,507 | 104 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,478 | 107 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,257 | 130 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,100 | 152 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,075 | 142 | — | |
| 1986 | #984 | 160 | — | |
| 1985 | #907 | 174 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #821 | 191 | — | |
| 1983 | #802 | 194 | — | |
| 1982 | #817 | 192 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #722 | 228 | — | |
| 1980 | #752 | 220 | — | |
| 1979 | #716 | 235 | — | |
| 1978 | #698 | 227 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #918 | 153 | — | |
| 1976 | #861 | 158 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,316 | 83 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,438 | 70 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,510 | 62 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 49 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,546 | 63 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
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| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shasta! It came in at #4,851, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shasta is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#274 · 1 in 1,639
- Oregon#315 · 1 in 1,931
- Kentucky#351 · 1 in 2,654
- Arkansas#353 · 1 in 2,097
- North Carolina#426 · 1 in 3,237
Best ever in a state: #146 in Idaho, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #274 | 17 | 1 in 1,639 |
| Oregon | #315 | 8 | 1 in 1,931 |
| Kentucky | #351 | 9 | 1 in 2,654 |
| Arkansas | #353 | 6 | 1 in 2,097 |
| North Carolina | #426 | 10 | 1 in 3,237 |
| Mississippi | #446 | 6 | 1 in 2,556 |
| Ohio | #457 | 17 | 1 in 4,056 |
| Alabama | #461 | 7 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Arizona | #522 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| Indiana | #591 | 6 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Georgia | #602 | 7 | 1 in 4,607 |
| Texas | #636 | 22 | 1 in 4,700 |
| Michigan | #767 | 7 | 1 in 8,221 |
| Louisiana | #771 | 5 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Pennsylvania | #810 | 7 | 1 in 9,429 |
| California | #816 | 22 | 1 in 6,970 |
| Florida | #842 | 6 | 1 in 7,337 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shasta
- 5,996 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #14,942)
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- 7,329 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 455 spots in 1976 (#1,316 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 1982 (#722 → #817)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1978 at #698 (227 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1976–1986
- Highest: 1 in 6,748 girls born in 1978 were named Shasta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Shasta (1,784) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,851 (1926) | #4,851 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 8 | #3,883 (1948) | #3,883 |
| 1950s | 93 | #2,889 (1954) | #4,078 |
| 1960s | 102 | #3,357 (1960) | #4,410 |
| 1970s | 1,119 | #698 (1978) | #1,409 |
| 1980s | 1,784 | #722 (1981) | #914 |
| 1990s | 764 | #1,257 (1990) | #2,035 |
| 2000s | 277 | #2,854 (2000) | #5,112 |
| 2010s | 124 | #7,092 (2017) | #9,047 |
| 2020s | 44 | #8,946 (2024) | #12,264 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shasta in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,748 of them was named Shasta, which outranked 93.9% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Shasta, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.