Sha — #15603 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sha

The Social Security Administration has registered 639 babies named Sha between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sha currently holds the #15603 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Sha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 127 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sha performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 192 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Sha in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 639 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.