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Shifra

#2,580 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Shiphrah

Shifra has been given to 1,715 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #2,580 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Shifra, 2025

1 in 48,800

Shifra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shifra: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Shiphrah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shifra means

Shifra is a form of Shiphrah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shifra → Shiphrah. The family’s meaning is “beautiful”, recorded in the naming reference for Shiphrah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shiphrah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,715 girls were recorded with the name Shifra between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,580 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,347 in 2020 to #2,580 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,573 in 2015 to #2,580 in 2025.

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.

How common is Shifra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,580
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shifra 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 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shifra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shifras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shifra was born before 2006 — so the typical Shifra is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,705
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Shifra 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
+868
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,767
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,993
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (68)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,580
2025

Spellings of Shifra

Shifra is not the most common spelling — Chiara is, with 13.4% against Shifra's 3.9%.

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 Shifra is used

Across 1910–2025, Shifra was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 13,217 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 20,000).

59 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 11,111
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000

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. Shifra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shifra around the world

Where Shifra 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
    1998–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shifra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,767
Best rank ever
#2,580
2025
Peak year
2025
68 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,715
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Shifra

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

ShilahShirinShiloShireenShivaniShiannaShiannShirelShianneShirlyShioriShiaShiraShilohShielaShireeShirlShirlieShizueShilpaShifaShilaShineShiane

Sibling names for Shifra

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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