Shaia
Shaia is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,890 among girls’ names and #8,140 among boys’, #12,816 among all names counting both); 114 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaia?
#16,890 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaia fell from #14,275 in 2015 to #16,890 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
15 babies in 2025, the peak
Shaia peaked in 2025, when 15 babies were given it (5 girls, #16,890 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 7 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,890 | 10 | #8,140 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,255 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,907 | 6 | #12,023 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,305 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,244 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,883 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,275 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,804 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,847 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,596 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #12,288 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,607 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,209 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,774 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,917 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 114 Americans recorded as Shaia, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaia, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Shaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 3 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 165 people named Shaia (135 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 24,741 babies since 1880, Shaia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 405 babies (3.7%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaia and names like it
- Compare Shaia and ShayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShaia peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.