Shea — #1186 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shea

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,363 babies named Shea between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shea currently holds the #1186 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 348 babies received it in a single year. Shea is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,427 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shea performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,056 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,191 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shea in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shea 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 12,363 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.