Shea
#1,150 for girls in 2025, 201 births · #1,547 for boys in 2025, 111 births
Given to girls 59.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 309 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,565since 1950
Shea over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,150 | 201 | #1,547 | 111 |
| 2024 | #1,188 | 201 | #1,494 | 120 |
| 2023 | #1,024 | 247 | #1,323 | 144 |
| 2022 | #1,043 | 245 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,042 | 242 | #1,339 | 138 |
| 2020 | #1,145 | 207 | #1,503 | 112 |
| 2019 | #1,164 | 205 | #1,413 | 124 |
| 2018 | #1,210 | 195 | #1,478 | 117 |
| 2017 | #1,282 | 184 | #1,384 | 127 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 | #1,599 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,275 | 191 | #1,599 | 100 |
| 2014 | #1,186 | 206 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #1,220 | 197 | #1,528 | 105 |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 | #1,336 | 127 |
| 2011 | #1,345 | 172 | #1,193 | 148 |
| 2010 | #1,218 | 199 | #1,372 | 123 |
| 2009 | #1,032 | 252 | #1,148 | 159 |
| 2008 | #962 | 278 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 2007 | #923 | 293 | #1,092 | 167 |
| 2006 | #897 | 296 | #980 | 189 |
| 2005 | #763 | 348 | #953 | 183 |
| 2004 | #784 | 329 | #888 | 195 |
| 2003 | #778 | 318 | #845 | 205 |
| 2002 | #796 | 294 | #781 | 221 |
| 2001 | #734 | 327 | #858 | 187 |
| 2000 | #723 | 321 | #932 | 163 |
| 1999 | #784 | 281 | #951 | 152 |
| 1998 | #702 | 315 | #999 | 137 |
| 1997 | #698 | 309 | #814 | 180 |
| 1996 | #737 | 286 | #882 | 155 |
| 1995 | #773 | 260 | #783 | 187 |
| 1994 | #724 | 287 | #745 | 197 |
| 1993 | #821 | 243 | #810 | 170 |
| 1992 | #765 | 272 | #783 | 178 |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | #759 | 181 |
| 1990 | #863 | 228 | #681 | 221 |
| 1989 | #822 | 231 | #676 | 218 |
| 1988 | #740 | 253 | #598 | 245 |
| 1987 | #775 | 229 | #562 | 261 |
| 1986 | #815 | 206 | #529 | 280 |
| 1985 | #842 | 193 | #573 | 234 |
| 1984 | #855 | 179 | #538 | 257 |
| 1983 | #1,127 | 119 | #848 | 106 |
| 1982 | #1,079 | 132 | #853 | 108 |
| 1981 | #1,050 | 136 | #865 | 105 |
| 1980 | #959 | 154 | #819 | 115 |
| 1979 | #959 | 151 | #895 | 95 |
| 1978 | #1,046 | 130 | #847 | 102 |
| 1977 | #1,097 | 118 | #875 | 93 |
| 1976 | #1,086 | 112 | #825 | 103 |
| 1975 | #1,022 | 118 | #792 | 110 |
| 1974 | #847 | 155 | #793 | 102 |
| 1973 | #947 | 127 | #829 | 92 |
| 1972 | #967 | 125 | #968 | 70 |
| 1971 | #988 | 127 | #1,014 | 64 |
| 1970 | #1,069 | 114 | #951 | 71 |
| 1969 | #1,259 | 79 | #1,168 | 45 |
| 1968 | #1,834 | 42 | #1,131 | 44 |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 | #1,609 | 23 |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | #2,043 | 15 |
| 1965 | #2,684 | 21 | #2,178 | 14 |
| 1964 | #2,475 | 25 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shea! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shea is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#485 · 1 in 3,350
- Missouri#518 · 1 in 4,583
- Louisiana#592 · 1 in 4,375
- Washington#603 · 1 in 4,601
- Pennsylvania#821 · 1 in 9,906
Best ever in a state: #150 in Connecticut, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #485 | 6 | 1 in 3,350 |
| Missouri | #518 | 7 | 1 in 4,583 |
| Louisiana | #592 | 7 | 1 in 4,375 |
| Washington | #603 | 6 | 1 in 4,601 |
| Pennsylvania | #821 | 7 | 1 in 9,906 |
| Illinois | #844 | 9 | 1 in 8,350 |
| Ohio | #917 | 6 | 1 in 12,042 |
| Florida | #937 | 6 | 1 in 9,015 |
| Texas | #956 | 13 | 1 in 9,518 |
| Michigan | #963 | 5 | 1 in 11,731 |
| California | #2,056 | 6 | 1 in 30,215 |
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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 Shea
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,188 → #1,150)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#1,145 → #1,150)
- 125 spots since 2015 (#1,275 → #1,150)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1984 (#1,127 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 175 spots in 1975 (#847 → #1,022)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1997 at #698 (309 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1984–2008
- Highest: 1 in 5,310 girls born in 2005 were named Shea (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,996 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #698 in 1997, was only 1 in 5,633 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all girls named Shea (3,056) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1987, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 64 | #3,827 (1959) | #4,392 |
| 1960s | 292 | #1,259 (1969) | #2,759 |
| 1970s | 1,277 | #847 (1974) | #1,003 |
| 1980s | 1,832 | #740 (1988) | #906 |
| 1990s | 2,747 | #698 (1997) | #764 |
| 2000s | 3,056 | #723 (2000) | #839 |
| 2010s | 1,954 | #1,098 (2016) | #1,236 |
| 2020s | 1,343 | #1,024 (2023) | #1,099 |
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.
Shea in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 12,265 of them was named Shea, which outranked 91.4% 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).
- #1,045Jonelle137
- #1,045Kirstin137
- #1,045Tiffaney137
- #1,050Shea136
- #1,050Damaris136
- #1,050Danna136
- #1,050Kacy136
- #1,055Cherise135
- #1,055Dixie135
- #1,055Farrah135
Tied with 4 names at #1,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 17,059 of them was named Shea, which outranked 88.1% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).