Shia — #1198 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shia

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,115 babies named Shia between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shia currently holds the #1198 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 170 babies received it in a single year. Shia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,058 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 835 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shia shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,003 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shia in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shia 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 2,115 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.