Sheina
#9,999 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sheina has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #9,999 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Sheina, 2025
1 in 332,000
Sheina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sheina?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,999
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sheina sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheinas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheina was born before 1995 — so the typical Sheina is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 29.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 488
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (144).
Is Sheina 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
- −535
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +964
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −593
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 47.6%
- Peak was 1989 (21)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sheina
Sheina is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 35.0% against Sheina's 0.07%.
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 Sheina is used
Across 1910–2025, Sheina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 183,918 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
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. Sheina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sheina around the world
Where Sheina 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 & Wales1997–1997#3,174in 1997
- France1995–2025#6,475in 2025
- Canada2009–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
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.
Sheina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sheina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sheina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.