Meaning not yet researched.
Shea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 201 in 2025. Its best rank was #698 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #698 in 1997; #1,159 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Shea in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,159 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #698.
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Shea: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 201 girls in 2025. Peak: #698 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 348 (2005).
In 2025, 201 US girls were named Shea, making it the 1,159th most common girls’ name of the year, up 31 places from #1,190 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 201 girls named Shea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #698, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 348, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,278 in 2015 and #4,674 in 1950.
In 2025, 111 US boys were named Shea, making it the 1,552nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #1,498 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 120 boys named Shea in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #530, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 280. For comparison, it was #1,611 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shea in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 7 babies. In all, 21,102 US babies have been given the name, 60% of them girls and 40% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,858 babies named Shea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,161 US girls were named Shea; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 247. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,996 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shea ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #283 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shia (3,348 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shy, Shi and Shya 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shy (478), Shi (412), Shya (365), Shey (281), Shiya (254), Shiah (219), Shyah (141), Shye (87), Shyia (63), Zhia (52), Sheya (15), Shie (11), and more.
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 Shea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 21 | #283 | #298 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #447 | #571 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #529 | #609 |
| New York | 31 | #544 | #681 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #683 | #818 |
| Illinois | 13 | #744 | #1,149 |
| Maryland | 6 | #826 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #895 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #981 | #750 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,287 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,352 | #1,199 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,390 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,422 | #1,174 |
| California | 16 | #1,473 | #1,526 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 201 | #1,159 | 111 | #1,552 |
| 2024 | 201 | #1,190 | 120 | #1,498 |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,030 | 144 | #1,325 |
| 2022 | 245 | #1,046 | 124 | #1,465 |
| 2021 | 242 | #1,044 | 138 | #1,347 |
| 2020 | 207 | #1,148 | 112 | #1,510 |
| 2019 | 205 | #1,167 | 124 | #1,418 |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,213 | 117 | #1,488 |
| 2017 | 184 | #1,286 | 127 | #1,392 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,101 | 102 | #1,602 |
| 2015 | 191 | #1,278 | 100 | #1,611 |
| 2014 | 206 | #1,192 | 106 | #1,524 |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,226 | 105 | #1,535 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,373 | 127 | #1,345 |
| 2011 | 172 | #1,347 | 148 | #1,197 |
| 2010 | 199 | #1,220 | 123 | #1,374 |
| 2009 | 252 | #1,034 | 159 | #1,151 |
| 2008 | 278 | #967 | 133 | #1,315 |
| 2007 | 293 | #925 | 167 | #1,095 |
| 2006 | 296 | #898 | 189 | #984 |
| 2005 | 348 | #764 | 183 | #957 |
| 2004 | 329 | #785 | 195 | #894 |
| 2003 | 318 | #778 | 205 | #847 |
| 2002 | 294 | #799 | 221 | #783 |
| 2001 | 327 | #734 | 187 | #862 |
| 2000 | 321 | #725 | 163 | #938 |
| 1999 | 281 | #785 | 152 | #955 |
| 1998 | 315 | #703 | 137 | #1,004 |
| 1997 | 309 | #698 | 180 | #815 |
| 1996 | 286 | #737 | 155 | #883 |
| 1995 | 260 | #774 | 187 | #784 |
| 1994 | 287 | #728 | 197 | #749 |
| 1993 | 243 | #821 | 170 | #811 |
| 1992 | 272 | #766 | 178 | #788 |
| 1991 | 266 | #775 | 181 | #760 |
| 1990 | 228 | #863 | 221 | #683 |
| 1989 | 231 | #824 | 218 | #677 |
| 1988 | 253 | #744 | 245 | #601 |
| 1987 | 229 | #776 | 261 | #562 |
| 1986 | 206 | #818 | 280 | #530 |
| 1985 | 193 | #844 | 234 | #573 |
| 1984 | 179 | #857 | 257 | #538 |
| 1983 | 119 | #1,129 | 106 | #854 |
| 1982 | 132 | #1,081 | 108 | #860 |
| 1981 | 136 | #1,054 | 105 | #869 |
| 1980 | 154 | #963 | 115 | #822 |
| 1979 | 151 | #963 | 95 | #900 |
| 1978 | 130 | #1,047 | 102 | #852 |
| 1977 | 118 | #1,101 | 93 | #879 |
| 1976 | 112 | #1,091 | 103 | #827 |
| 1975 | 118 | #1,025 | 110 | #794 |
| 1974 | 155 | #851 | 102 | #795 |
| 1973 | 127 | #954 | 92 | #833 |
| 1972 | 125 | #970 | 70 | #974 |
| 1971 | 127 | #994 | 64 | #1,024 |
| 1970 | 114 | #1,073 | 71 | #958 |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,265 | 45 | #1,183 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,849 | 44 | #1,144 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,779 | 23 | #1,645 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,947 | 15 | #2,120 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,735 | 14 | #2,254 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,522 | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,846 | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,230 | 11 | #2,654 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,764 | 11 | #2,684 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,658 | 10 | #2,843 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,995 | 13 | #2,396 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,838 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,494 | 7 | #3,513 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,774 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,572 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,674 | — | — |
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).