Meaning not yet researched.
Shasta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #700 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #700 in 1978; #16,904 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shasta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,904 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #700.
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Shasta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #700 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 235 (1979).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Shasta, making it the 16,904th most common girls’ name of the year, down 7,437 places from #9,467 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 11 girls named Shasta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #700, reached in 1978. The most girls given the name in a single year was 235, in 1979. For comparison, it was #7,943 in 2015 and #5,985 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shasta in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 5 babies. In all, 4,340 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,794 babies named Shasta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 94 US girls were named Shasta; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shaista are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shaista (15).
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.
No nicknames listed for Shasta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,904 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,467 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,037 | 5 | #13,871 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,086 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,275 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,158 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,533 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,072 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,388 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,654 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,943 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,340 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,514 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,333 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,292 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,830 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,026 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,365 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,722 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1991 | 107 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1990 | 130 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1989 | 152 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1986 | 160 | #986 | — | — |
| 1985 | 174 | #911 | 5 | #7,417 |
| 1984 | 191 | #827 | — | — |
| 1983 | 194 | #803 | — | — |
| 1982 | 192 | #822 | 5 | #7,207 |
| 1981 | 228 | #728 | — | — |
| 1980 | 220 | #753 | — | — |
| 1979 | 235 | #716 | — | — |
| 1978 | 227 | #700 | 5 | #6,620 |
| 1977 | 153 | #920 | — | — |
| 1976 | 158 | #864 | — | — |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,946 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,164 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,419 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,472 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,985 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,158 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,517 | — | — |
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).