Meaning not yet researched.
Shaina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #319 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #319 in 1987; #2,404 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,404 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #319.
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Shaina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 girls in 2025. Peak: #319 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 770 (1988).
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Shaina, making it the 2,404th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #2,341 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 79 girls named Shaina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #319, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 770, in 1988. For comparison, it was #2,378 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaina in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 12,010 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,724 babies named Shaina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 690 US girls were named Shaina; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shaina ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #614 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shayna (16,272 babies since 1880), Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880) and Shauna (28,121 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Sha and Shay.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 13 | #614 | #659 |
| New York | 23 | #730 | #680 |
| Maryland | 5 | #976 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,118 | #2,364 |
| California | 6 | #3,054 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 2008 | 128 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 2003 | 181 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2002 | 204 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2000 | 290 | #794 | — | — |
| 1999 | 289 | #769 | — | — |
| 1998 | 344 | #672 | — | — |
| 1997 | 403 | #577 | — | — |
| 1996 | 474 | #506 | — | — |
| 1995 | 374 | #602 | — | — |
| 1994 | 497 | #501 | — | — |
| 1993 | 489 | #506 | — | — |
| 1992 | 604 | #419 | — | — |
| 1991 | 611 | #417 | — | — |
| 1990 | 639 | #408 | — | — |
| 1989 | 669 | #378 | 6 | #7,749 |
| 1988 | 770 | #324 | 7 | #6,312 |
| 1987 | 760 | #319 | — | — |
| 1986 | 568 | #398 | — | — |
| 1985 | 352 | #561 | — | — |
| 1984 | 323 | #570 | 5 | #7,152 |
| 1983 | 205 | #781 | — | — |
| 1982 | 185 | #845 | — | — |
| 1981 | 134 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,095 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,441 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,864 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,954 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).