Sheng — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sheng

The Social Security Administration has registered 370 babies named Sheng between 1980 and 2006, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sheng currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheng performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sheng shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 163 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Sheng in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sheng 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 370 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.