Shea
Shea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 200 births. Its best rank was 698th, in 1997.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2000.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005348 births
- Best rank
- #698in 1997
- Since 1950
- 20,790people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,363 girls have been named Shea in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 348 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2000s alone account for 25%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Shea is used for both sexes: 41% of its bearers are boys (8,427), most of them born around 1986.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2005, its biggest year
Shea was the 764th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Shea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nohemipeak 1994
- Indirapeak 2001
- Anamariapeak 2001
- Josipeak 2002
- Saidapeak 2008
- Danaepeak 2001
- Ilanapeak 1992
- Desirepeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.