Sheina
Sheina was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,999 among girls’ names; 488 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheina?
#9,999 among girls’ names, 2025
Sheina fell from #9,406 in 2015 to #9,999 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 6.2 per million.
21 babies in 1989, the peak
Sheina peaked in 1989, when 21 girls were given it, #4,492 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,999 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,464 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,511 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,967 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,998 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,963 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,290 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,320 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,571 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,406 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,826 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,868 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,477 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,726 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,565 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,476 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,466 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,289 | 5.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,790 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,192 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,885 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,610 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,205 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,483 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,897 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,604 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,975 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,532 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,612 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,380 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,507 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,230 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,492 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,589 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,718 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,163 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,819 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,462 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,097 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,499 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,898 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,253 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,613 | 6.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,432 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,040 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,853 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,073 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,652 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,279 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheina, and how old are they?
An estimated 476 Americans named Sheina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 16 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Sheina (465 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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, Sheina is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 23 babies (43%), the second most given that year.
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 Sheina
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 Sheina and names like it
- Compare Sheina and SheenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSheina peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheina since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Sheina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sheina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.