Sheina — #9051 US girls' name
478 babies named Sheina in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 49% of names given to girls today.
30% of everyone ever named Sheina was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Sheina in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sheina
The Social Security Administration has registered 478 babies named Sheina between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sheina currently holds the #9051 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheina performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sheina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 63 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sheina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sheina 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 478 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.
Sheina at a glance
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Current rank
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Sheina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1960
- Peak year (1989)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 65 years of records
Currently ranks #9051 among girls.
478 total births across 65 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 21 births in a single year.
Sheina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 144 births that decade — 30% of Sheina's all-time total
Sheina decade highlights
- Peak decade 144 births
- Runner-up 100 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sheina's strongest decade
144 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Sheina by state
Where Sheina concentrates geographically — total births since 1960
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 63 | 13.2% |
63 of 478 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 13.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 13.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1960–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.