Sheana
Sheana was last recorded in 2009, when 7 babies were given it; 623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sheana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sheana is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sheana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,999, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1985, the peak
Sheana peaked in 1985, when 71 girls were given it, #1,662 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #14,999 | 3.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,692 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,788 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,464 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,729 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,710 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,849 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,662 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,719 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,427 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 16 | #5,941 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,416 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,016 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,463 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,026 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,491 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,378 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,907 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,714 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,662 | 41.3 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,830 | 35.0 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,016 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,079 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,608 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,484 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,705 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,838 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,260 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,138 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,852 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,547 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,232 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,406 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,373 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,314 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,880 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheana, and how old are they?
An estimated 602 Americans named Sheana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 36 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 595 people named Sheana (590 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 608 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 28,133 babies since 1880, Sheana is the fourth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Sheana (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 Sheana
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 Sheana and names like it
- Compare Sheana and SheenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSheana peaked in 1985.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheana since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Sheana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sheana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.