Shaena — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaena

The Social Security Administration has registered 541 babies named Shaena between 1973 and 2015, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 39 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaena performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 235 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shaena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaena in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaena 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 541 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.