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Shea

Pronounced /ʃeɪ/

Rank in 2024
#1,186
Born in 2024
200
Peak year
2005 · #763
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:120 in 2024 (#1,492)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 200 girls were named Shea, about 1 in every 8,066.
  • It peaked in 2005 with 348 babies, ranked #763.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1950.
  • 12,363 girls have been named Shea since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Shea per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 135 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,652 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,520 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,503 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,553 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Anglicised from Irish Ó Séaghdha.

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ʃeɪ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Shea, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Siya

    Rank
    #928
    Born '24
    284
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
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    Shay

    Rank
    #1,153
    Born '24
    208
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20222024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Sia

    Rank
    #1,267
    Born '24
    183
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20222024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shai

    Rank
    #1,949
    Born '24
    101
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20232024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shae

    Rank
    #2,145
    Born '24
    88
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19982024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Sue

    Rank
    #8,005
    Born '24
    13
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19472024