Shira
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 157 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,815since 1941
Shira over time
Rank among girls' names. Shira has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,327 | 79 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2016 | #2,149 | 90 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 |
| 2014 | #2,027 | 97 |
| 2013 | #2,020 | 96 |
| 2012 | #2,373 | 78 |
| 2011 | #2,088 | 92 |
| 2010 | #1,688 | 125 |
| 2009 | #1,463 | 159 |
| 2008 | #1,531 | 151 |
| 2007 | #1,770 | 121 |
| 2006 | #1,560 | 139 |
| 2005 | #1,500 | 139 |
| 2004 | #1,470 | 137 |
| 2003 | #1,710 | 111 |
| 2002 | #1,564 | 119 |
| 2001 | #1,411 | 134 |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 |
| 1999 | #1,539 | 110 |
| 1998 | #1,667 | 96 |
| 1997 | #1,784 | 84 |
| 1996 | #1,577 | 99 |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 95 |
| 1994 | #1,574 | 97 |
| 1993 | #1,554 | 100 |
| 1992 | #1,410 | 116 |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 |
| 1990 | #1,439 | 109 |
| 1989 | #1,454 | 101 |
| 1988 | #1,147 | 133 |
| 1987 | #1,486 | 87 |
| 1986 | #1,187 | 119 |
| 1985 | #976 | 157 |
| 1984 | #1,144 | 119 |
| 1983 | #1,049 | 132 |
| 1982 | #1,138 | 123 |
| 1981 | #1,271 | 101 |
| 1980 | #1,197 | 110 |
| 1979 | #1,238 | 104 |
| 1978 | #1,412 | 82 |
| 1977 | #1,257 | 95 |
| 1976 | #1,464 | 71 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 |
| 1974 | #1,760 | 51 |
| 1973 | #1,714 | 52 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 |
| 1971 | #2,137 | 38 |
| 1970 | #1,986 | 42 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,296 | 28 |
| 1967 | #2,632 | 22 |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #3,201 | 12 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shira! It came in at #3,954, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shira is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#350 · 1 in 1,830
- New Jersey#433 · 1 in 2,312
- Maryland#698 · 1 in 4,085
- Florida#1,128 · 1 in 8,201
- California#1,406 · 1 in 12,044
Best ever in a state: #234 in District of Columbia, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #350 | 53 | 1 in 1,830 |
| New Jersey | #433 | 18 | 1 in 2,312 |
| Maryland | #698 | 6 | 1 in 4,085 |
| Florida | #1,128 | 10 | 1 in 8,201 |
| California | #1,406 | 19 | 1 in 12,044 |
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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 Shira
- 29 spots since 2024 (#2,327 → #2,298)
- 299 spots since 2020 (#2,597 → #2,298)
- 110 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #2,298)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1985 (#1,144 → #976)
- Biggest drop: 211 spots in 1986 (#976 → #1,187)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1985 at #976 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 27 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1985
- Highest: 1 in 10,961 girls born in 1985 were named Shira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.8% of all girls named Shira (1,324) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 25 | #3,612 (1949) | #4,526 |
| 1950s | 131 | #2,530 (1956) | #3,388 |
| 1960s | 224 | #2,249 (1966) | #2,666 |
| 1970s | 650 | #1,238 (1979) | #1,628 |
| 1980s | 1,182 | #976 (1985) | #1,205 |
| 1990s | 988 | #1,410 (1992) | #1,588 |
| 2000s | 1,324 | #1,411 (2001) | #1,554 |
| 2010s | 861 | #1,688 (2010) | #2,238 |
| 2020s | 430 | #2,298 (2025) | #2,482 |
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.
Shira in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 13,403 of them was named Shira, which outranked 92.2% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,464Jaslyn138
- #1,464Kaidence138
- #1,464Tegan138
- #1,470Shira137
- #1,470Adelyn137
- #1,470Alyvia137
- #1,470Connie137
- #1,480Chandler136
- #1,480Cinthia136
- #1,480Heavenly136
Tied with 9 names at #1,470; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.