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 | ||
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| 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 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#237 · 1 in 1,440
- Oregon#260 · 1 in 1,414
- Arkansas#307 · 1 in 1,817
- Alabama#354 · 1 in 2,274
- New Mexico#369 · 1 in 1,864
Best ever in a state: #146 in Idaho, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #237 | 8 | 1 in 1,440 |
| Oregon | #260 | 12 | 1 in 1,414 |
| Arkansas | #307 | 7 | 1 in 1,817 |
| Alabama | #354 | 10 | 1 in 2,274 |
| New Mexico | #369 | 5 | 1 in 1,864 |
| Kansas | #384 | 6 | 1 in 2,579 |
| Colorado | #395 | 8 | 1 in 2,596 |
| Tennessee | #399 | 9 | 1 in 3,099 |
| Utah | #412 | 6 | 1 in 2,689 |
| Wisconsin | #493 | 6 | 1 in 5,197 |
| Arizona | #587 | 5 | 1 in 3,991 |
| Louisiana | #592 | 7 | 1 in 4,375 |
| Washington | #603 | 6 | 1 in 4,601 |
| Indiana | #605 | 6 | 1 in 5,816 |
| California | #731 | 30 | 1 in 6,043 |
| Michigan | #764 | 7 | 1 in 8,380 |
| Texas | #838 | 16 | 1 in 7,733 |
| Ohio | #917 | 6 | 1 in 12,042 |
| Florida | #1,080 | 5 | 1 in 10,818 |
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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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 7,316 of them was named Shasta, which outranked 94.1% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).