Shalea
Shalea was last recorded in 2010, when 8 babies were given it; 389 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,271, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1991, the peak
Shalea peaked in 1991, when 22 girls were given it, #4,614 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,271 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,885 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,401 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,493 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,277 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,254 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,638 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,426 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,203 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,648 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #9,041 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,189 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,033 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,113 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,022 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,202 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,005 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,386 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,243 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,614 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,076 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,358 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,062 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,256 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,028 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,090 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,819 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,750 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,228 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,275 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,672 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,890 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,109 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,334 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalea, and how old are they?
An estimated 380 Americans named Shalea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 25 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 333 people named Shalea (333 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,611 babies since 1880, Shalea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 197 babies recorded by SSA was a Shalea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shalea
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 Shalea and names like it
- Compare Shalea and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShalea peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shalea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shalea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.