Shifra
Shifra was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,580 among girls’ names; 1,715 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Shifra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shifra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shifra?
#2,580 among girls’ names, 2025
Shifra rose from #4,573 in 2015 to #2,580 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 42.3 per million.
68 babies in 2025, the peak
Shifra peaked in 2025, when 68 girls were given it, #2,580 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 46 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,580 | 42.3 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,448 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,263 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,358 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,380 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,347 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,496 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,284 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,899 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,768 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,573 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,768 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,069 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,458 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,597 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,590 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,180 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,346 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,713 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,448 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,633 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,557 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,198 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,263 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,771 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,058 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,704 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,930 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,977 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,416 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,081 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,217 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,970 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,262 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,624 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,422 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,997 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,288 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,403 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,869 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,824 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,855 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,850 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,483 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,703 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,705 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,219 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,653 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,831 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,933 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,492 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,294 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,144 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,757 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,515 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,748 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,684 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,894 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,675 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,658 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,154 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,074 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,682 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,603 | 3.2 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,158 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shifra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shifra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shifra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shifra, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,715 Americans ever recorded as Shifra. The median Shifra alive today is 20 years old; half are between 9 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,292 people named Shifra (1,283 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 545 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 589 |
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).
Where are babies named Shifra born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 44 | #402 | 9.5× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #494 | 4.3× |
Where Shifra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shifra is most over-represented in New York: since 1930 it was given 9.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shifra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shifra
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 Shifra and names like it
- Compare Shifra and ManalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShifra peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shifra since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shifra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shifra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.