Shera
Shera was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 1,507 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Shera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,254, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
135 babies in 1986, the peak
Shera peaked in 1986, when 135 girls were given it, #1,104 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,254 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,797 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,227 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,114 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,931 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,148 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,685 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,391 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,180 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,415 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 11 | #7,977 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,362 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,887 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,381 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,479 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,855 | 36.2 |
| 1986 | 135 | #1,104 | 78.7 |
| 1985 | 120 | #1,183 | 69.7 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,373 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,772 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,818 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,440 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,761 | 37.9 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,910 | 34.3 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,419 | 53.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,371 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,248 | 25.9 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,948 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,426 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,098 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,303 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,295 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,011 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,635 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,992 | 22.6 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,054 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,523 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,515 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,217 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,443 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,520 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,936 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,486 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,408 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,211 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,854 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,125 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,012 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,229 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,083 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,172 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,959 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,261 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,831 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,839 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,617 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,398 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,971 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,151 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,540 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,276 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,798 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shera, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,507 Americans ever recorded as Shera. The median Shera alive today is 46 years old; half are between 40 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 1,460 people named Shera (1,451 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 195 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 41 |
| 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 401,339 babies since 1880, Shera is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 103 babies recorded by SSA was a Shera (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 Shera
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 Shera and names like it
- Compare Shera and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shera since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shera.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shera alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.