Shiah
#16,908 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shiah has been given to 219 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #16,908 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.
Babies named Shiah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shiah over time
In 2025, Shiah went to 36% girls and 64% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,908
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shiah 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiah was born before 2013 — so the typical Shiah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 129
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Shiah 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
- −1,892
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,633
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 35.7%
- Peak was 2009 (14)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shiah
Shiah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 87.1% against Shiah's 0.01%.
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.
Shiah around the world
Where Shiah 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.
- South Australia2007–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.