Shadeja
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shadeja has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Shadeja, 2001
1 in 374,000
Shadeja over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shadeja?
Shadeja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 374,000
- 10 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 180,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 259,389 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shadeja sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 259,389 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shadeja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shadejas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shadeja was born before 1997 — so the typical Shadeja is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 70.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 70.0% of all recorded uses (35).
Is Shadeja rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (10)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 49.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shadeja
Shadeja is not the most common spelling — Shameka is, with 26.2% against Shadeja's 0.21%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shadeja by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shadeja
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shadeja
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.