Meaning not yet researched.
Shia: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 138 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,202 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,202 in 2024; #1,360 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Shia in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,360 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,202.
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Shia: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 138 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,202 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 171 (2024).
In 2025, 138 US boys were named Shia, making it the 1,360th most common boys’ name of the year, down 158 places from #1,202 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 171 boys named Shia in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,202, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #1,997 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Shia, making it the 4,258th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,215 places from #3,043 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 54 girls named Shia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,248, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #5,108 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shia in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 3,348 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,230 babies named Shia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,225 US boys were named Shia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shia ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #278 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shea (21,102 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zhi, Shiyah and Zhiya 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: Zhi (193), Shiyah (27), Zhiya (11), Shiho (10), Shiye (10), Shiyu (7), Shiyi (5).
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 Shia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 67 | #278 | #398 |
| Colorado | 7 | #748 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #795 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,422 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,056 | #1,912 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,255 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,258 | 138 | #1,360 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,043 | 171 | #1,202 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,377 | 159 | #1,236 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,269 | 146 | #1,305 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,153 | 153 | #1,252 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,271 | 130 | #1,367 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,329 | 85 | #1,813 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,609 | 72 | #2,027 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,167 | 99 | #1,620 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,233 | 72 | #2,006 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,108 | 73 | #1,997 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,091 | 93 | #1,667 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,637 | 71 | #1,960 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,476 | 70 | #2,014 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,940 | 104 | #1,532 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,935 | 96 | #1,635 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,392 | 115 | #1,454 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,248 | 83 | #1,799 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,200 | 40 | #2,966 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,211 | 35 | #3,146 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,942 | 31 | #3,308 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,267 | 20 | #4,390 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,460 | 25 | #3,613 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,095 | 18 | #4,468 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,127 | 15 | #5,096 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,635 | 13 | #5,536 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,158 | 20 | #3,814 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,231 | 10 | #6,229 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,253 | 17 | #4,029 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,845 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,886 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,605 | 10 | #5,814 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,194 | 7 | #7,502 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,283 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,160 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,065 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,135 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,324 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,416 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,523 |
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).