Shaina
Shaina was given to 75 girls in 2025, #2,404 among girls’ names; 12,010 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Shaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaina?
#2,404 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaina fell from #2,378 in 2015 to #2,404 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 46.7 per million.
777 babies in 1988, the peak
Shaina peaked in 1988, when 777 babies were given it (770 girls, #324 among girls’ names). The 75 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,404 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,341 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,697 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,551 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,581 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,057 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,724 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,736 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,428 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,381 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,378 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,551 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,764 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,140 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,253 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,976 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 128 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,743 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,717 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,421 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 181 | #1,187 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 204 | #1,051 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,008 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 290 | #794 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 289 | #768 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 344 | #672 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 403 | #577 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 474 | #506 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 374 | #602 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 497 | #501 | 0.28 |
| 1993 | 489 | #506 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 604 | #419 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 611 | #417 | 0.33 |
| 1990 | 639 | #408 | 0.34 |
| 1989 | 669 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1988 | 770 | #324 | 0.43 |
| 1987 | 760 | #319 | 0.44 |
| 1986 | 568 | #398 | 0.33 |
| 1985 | 352 | #561 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 323 | #570 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 205 | #781 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 185 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 134 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,541 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,712 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,959 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,497 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,077 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,094 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,439 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,292 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,952 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaina has been given almost only to girls: 18 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaina, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,010 Americans ever recorded as Shaina. The median Shaina alive today is 34 years old; half are between 27 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 10,144 people named Shaina (10,129 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,414 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 920 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shaina born?
The states with the most babies named Shaina are New York, New Jersey and California, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #730 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #614 | 1.6× |
| California | 6 | #3,054 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,118 | 1.4× |
| Maryland | 5 | #976 | 1.0× |
Where Shaina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaina is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 141,420 babies since 1880, Shaina is the sixth most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 295 babies (25%), the 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 Shaina
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 Shaina and names like it
- Compare Shaina and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShaina peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaina since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Shaina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.