Shiza
#6,287 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shiza has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #6,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Shiza, 2025
1 in 174,000
Shiza 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shiza?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 84,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,287
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shiza 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shizas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiza was born before 2012 — so the typical Shiza is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 195
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Shiza 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
- +4,688
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,698
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (19)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shiza
Shiza is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 48.9% against Shiza's 0.04%.
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.
Shiza around the world
Where Shiza 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 & Wales2001–2025#3,333in 2025
- Canada2007–2023#2,973in 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.
Shiza by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shiza
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shiza
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.