Meaning not yet researched.
Shira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #979 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #979 in 1985; #2,321 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,321 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #979.
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Shira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #979 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 159 (2009).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Shira, making it the 2,321st most common girls’ name of the year, up 21 places from #2,342 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 79 girls named Shira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #979, reached in 1985. The most girls given the name in a single year was 159, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,425 in 2015 and #3,393 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shira in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 6 babies. In all, 5,815 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,324 babies named Shira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 727 US girls were named Shira; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shira ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #786 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shera (1,507 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sherra, Shyra and Shirah 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: Sherra (897), Shyra (857), Shirah (291), Sherae (273), Sherah (193), Sheray (151), Sheera (133), Shyrah (25), Shyera (21), Sheira (12), Shyaira (10), Sheara (10), 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 Shira 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 21 | #786 | #732 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #928 | #843 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,221 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,423 | #1,617 |
| California | 9 | #2,254 | #2,693 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,241 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2015 | 76 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1993 | 100 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1992 | 116 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1988 | 133 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1986 | 119 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1985 | 157 | #979 | — | — |
| 1984 | 119 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1983 | 132 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1981 | 101 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1980 | 110 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1979 | 104 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,337 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,660 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,933 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,367 | — | — |
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).