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Shizue

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Shizue has been given to 608 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1919, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Shizue, 1935

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shizue: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Shizue means

Shizue is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include quiet, still, gentle, bay, inlet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shizue is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɕi.zɨᵝ.e̞/ for Shizue.

Origin, language, and formation

Shizue is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 608 girls were recorded with the name Shizue between 1904 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,092 in 1915.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shizue?

Shizue had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1935
1 in 418,000
5 of 2,089,888 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1935
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shizue 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 1935 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,721 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shizue. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shizues were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shizue was born before 1920 — so the typical Shizue is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (298).

Is Shizue 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (41)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,092
1915

Spellings of Shizue

Shizue is not the most common spelling — Shiree is, with 33.9% against Shizue's 32.7%.

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 Shizue is used

Across 1910–2025, Shizue was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,099 girls, against 1 in 31,743 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

191 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,099
  2. 2California1 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. Shizue has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shizue by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,092
1915
Peak year
1919
41 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1935
All-time count
608
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shizue

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

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Sibling names for Shizue

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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