Shraga
Shraga was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,368 among boys’ names; 733 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shraga by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shraga mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shraga is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Aramaic שְׁרָגָא.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shraga?
#3,368 among boys’ names, 2025
Shraga rose from #4,380 in 2015 to #3,368 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 20.5 per million.
39 babies in 2023, the peak
Shraga peaked in 2023, when 39 boys were given it, #3,168 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,368 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,205 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,168 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,522 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,471 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,404 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,777 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,712 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,966 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,507 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,380 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,373 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,594 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 19 | #5,007 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,161 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,433 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,704 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,368 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,981 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,829 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,998 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,566 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,158 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,349 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,190 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,746 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,984 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,407 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,574 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,720 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,395 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,502 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,597 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,155 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,968 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,381 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,009 | 6.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,850 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,282 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,407 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,770 | 3.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,494 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shraga a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shraga has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shraga: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shraga, and how old are they?
An estimated 720 Americans named Shraga and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 538 people named Shraga (3 women and girls, 535 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 532 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 Shraga born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 22 | #687 | 8.7× |
Where Shraga is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shraga is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 8.7 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 boys’ 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 Shraga 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 Shraga
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.
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