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Shea

Pronounced /ʃeɪ/

Rank in 2024
#1,492
Born in 2024
120
Peak year
1986 · #529
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:200 in 2024 (#1,186)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 120 boys were named Shea, about 1 in every 14,294.
  • It peaked in 1986 with 280 babies, ranked #529.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1954.
  • 8,427 boys 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. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 77 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,159 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,103 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,669 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,419 babies, 0.07 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

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shai

    Rank
    #1,083
    Born '24
    200
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20232024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shia

    Rank
    #1,196
    Born '24
    170
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shaya

    Rank
    #1,443
    Born '24
    125
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shay

    Rank
    #1,699
    Born '24
    98
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19912024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Shae

    Rank
    #4,439
    Born '24
    23
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19902024