Meaning not yet researched.
Sheena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #80 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #80 in 1984; #8,277 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sheena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #80.
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Sheena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #80 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 3,597 (1984).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Sheena, making it the 8,277th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,668 places from #6,609 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 girls named Sheena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #80, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,597. For comparison, it was #4,705 in 2015 and #1,621 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sheena in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 9 babies. In all, 22,447 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 16,470 babies named Sheena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 163 US girls were named Sheena; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shayna (16,272 babies since 1880), Shena (2,356 babies since 1880) and Shenna (1,328 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sheana, Sheina and Shina 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Hebrew. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sheana (623), Sheina (488), Shina (426), Shiana (370), Shenae (333), Shyana (264), Sheanna (198), Sheyna (196), Shenay (162), Shyna (118), Sheenah (86), Sheona (28), 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 Sheena 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 | 13 | #8,277 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,609 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,905 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,971 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,045 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,345 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,535 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,257 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,267 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,670 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,222 | — | — |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,518 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 2001 | 81 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1995 | 141 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1994 | 181 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1993 | 247 | #811 | — | — |
| 1992 | 365 | #621 | — | — |
| 1991 | 418 | #561 | — | — |
| 1990 | 522 | #469 | — | — |
| 1989 | 767 | #328 | 7 | #6,830 |
| 1988 | 856 | #290 | 5 | #8,321 |
| 1987 | 1,154 | #232 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,574 | #173 | 8 | #5,258 |
| 1985 | 3,062 | #91 | 20 | #2,585 |
| 1984 | 3,597 | #80 | 12 | #3,652 |
| 1983 | 2,636 | #107 | 10 | #4,102 |
| 1982 | 1,956 | #149 | 5 | #7,215 |
| 1981 | 657 | #356 | — | — |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1979 | 143 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1978 | 148 | #951 | — | — |
| 1977 | 148 | #941 | — | — |
| 1976 | 122 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1975 | 113 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1974 | 127 | #974 | — | — |
| 1973 | 132 | #931 | — | — |
| 1972 | 136 | #917 | — | — |
| 1971 | 114 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1969 | 78 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1964 | 100 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1961 | 73 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1960 | 119 | #985 | — | — |
| 1959 | 123 | #948 | — | — |
| 1958 | 120 | #946 | — | — |
| 1957 | 164 | #789 | — | — |
| 1956 | 137 | #849 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,455 | — | — |
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).