Shalia
Shalia was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 557 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,309, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 2006, the peak
Shalia peaked in 2006, when 24 girls were given it, #5,676 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,309 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,283 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,365 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,733 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,999 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,272 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,389 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,675 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,454 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,676 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 11 | #10,007 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,793 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,152 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,372 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,264 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,659 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,002 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,019 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,204 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,706 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,479 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,809 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,149 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,817 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,184 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,393 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,008 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,450 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,697 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,030 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,367 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,820 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,751 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,352 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,276 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,279 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,557 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,490 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,382 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,912 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,536 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,338 | 3.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,292 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,955 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,391 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalia, and how old are they?
An estimated 544 Americans named Shalia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 515 people named Shalia (515 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 542 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 40,430 babies since 1880, Shalia is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 154 babies recorded by SSA was a Shalia (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 Shalia
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 Shalia and names like it
- Compare Shalia and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShalia peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalia since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Shalia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shalia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.