Shira
Shira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 979th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009159 births
- Best rank
- #979in 1985
- Since 1941
- 5,735people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,735 girls have been named Shira in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 159 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 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 23%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Shira was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Shira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elisabetpeak 1989
- Jordanapeak 2009
- Ilanapeak 1992
- Alysonpeak 1990
- Aracelipeak 2002
- Annalisapeak 2005
- Lyndeepeak 2007
- Allisonpeak 1994
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.