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Shaina

#2,404 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Shayna

Shaina has been given to 12,010 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,404 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 770 recorded.

Babies named Shaina, 2025

1 in 44,200

Shaina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaina: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Shayna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaina means

Shaina is a alternate transcription of Shayna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shaina → Shayna. The family’s meaning is “beautiful”, recorded in English with the source elements sheyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shayna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,992 girls were recorded with the name Shaina between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 770 in 1988; its best national rank was #319 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,057 in 2020 to #2,404 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,378 in 2015 to #2,404 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Shaina between 1984 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1988; its best national rank was #6,305 in 1988.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shaina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,404
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaina was born before 1992 — so the typical Shaina is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,992
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (4,724).

Is Shaina 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
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+653
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−26
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.7%
Peak was 1988 (770)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#319
1987

Spellings of Shaina

Shaina is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 25.5% against Shaina's 1.3%.

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.

Where Shaina is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaina was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 15,802 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 6,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,143
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 9,091
  5. 5Arizona1 in 10,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 11,111
  7. 7Maryland1 in 11,111
  8. 8California1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shaina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaina around the world

Where Shaina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #840
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shaina

People whose public names include Shaina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shaina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Shaina. Linked forms have their own page here.

Shayna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Shaina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,404
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 653
Best rank ever
#319
1987
Peak year
1988
770 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,992
Count in 2025
75

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,305
1988
Peak year
1988
7 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shaina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShaniaShaynaSharlaSharinaShaunaShannaShantelShaylaShaniceShastaShakiraShakinaShanaeShayleeDavinaShailaShawnaShalinaShaniyaAlvinaShayneSarinaEdwinaSharlene

Names with a curve like Shaina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shaina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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