Shena
Shena was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 2,356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Shena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 40 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,390, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
198 babies in 1984, the peak
Shena peaked in 1984, when 198 girls were given it, #804 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,390 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,615 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,604 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,398 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,519 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,972 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,217 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,505 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,402 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 15 | #6,263 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,226 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,485 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,611 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,222 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,043 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,906 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,443 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,270 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 157 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 198 | #804 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 140 | #1,014 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 165 | #917 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,478 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,594 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,834 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,026 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 67 | #1,449 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,666 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,680 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,255 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,343 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,285 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,315 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,241 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,416 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,167 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,422 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,757 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shena, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,356 Americans ever recorded as Shena. The median Shena alive today is 44 years old; half are between 40 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,149 people named Shena (2,136 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,265 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 145 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 789 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 50 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,198 babies since 1880, Shena is the second most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Shena (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 Shena
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 Shena and names like it
- Compare Shena and SheenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShena peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shena since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Shena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.