Shatia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shatia has been given to 636 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1992, with 54 recorded.
Babies named Shatia, 2012
1 in 732,000
Shatia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shatia?
Shatia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shatia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shatia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shatias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shatia was born before 1991 — so the typical Shatia is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 636
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (283).
Is Shatia 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 1992 (54)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shatia
Shatia is not the most common spelling — Shelia is, with 10.2% against Shatia's 0.14%.
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 Shatia is used
Across 1910–2025, Shatia was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 297,737 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Virginia1 in —
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. Shatia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shatia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shatia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shatia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.