Sheba
Sheba was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 1,173 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Sheba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 39 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sheba mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sheba is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Also “a male given name from Hebrew.”
From Biblical Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇāʾ).
/ˈʃiːbə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sheba?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,260, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1975, the peak
Sheba peaked in 1975, when 65 girls were given it, #1,559 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,260 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,584 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,570 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,472 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,252 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,273 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,747 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,696 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,542 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,058 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 | #8,147 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,850 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,760 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,720 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,447 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,262 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,790 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,657 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,971 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,027 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,307 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,219 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,880 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,924 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,963 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,698 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,531 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,690 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,132 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,643 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,238 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,957 | 32.6 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,552 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,532 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,559 | 44.6 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,335 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,260 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,157 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,139 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,186 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,993 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,722 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,915 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,244 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,456 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,896 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,683 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,142 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,239 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,235 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,662 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,318 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,128 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,157 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,008 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,462 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,228 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,073 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,320 | 4.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,918 | 2.9 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,498 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,335 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,768 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,893 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,677 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,752 | 4.1 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,505 | 7.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheba, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,173 Americans ever recorded as Sheba. The median Sheba alive today is 48 years old; half are between 39 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 1,326 people named Sheba (1,313 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 197 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 444 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 313 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 57 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sheba
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 Sheba and names like it
- Compare Sheba and BobbiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSheba peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheba since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Sheba: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Sheba.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sheba alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.