How rare is the name Shira?

4,995 people in the United States have the first name Shira, about 1 in 60,467. It ranks #3,916 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHIRA

#3,916

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,995
About
1 in 60,467
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,995 people named Shira, 85.1% reported their origin as White, 7.4% as Black and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shira peaked in 2009, when 159 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19412025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
159
In 2025*
79 ▼50%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,815 babies have been given the name since 1941. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Shira by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,991. The largest share of babies named Shira, 32.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#8,74825
1950s#5,032131
1960s#4,102224
1970s#2,511650
1980s#1,9911,182
1990s#2,688988
2000s#2,7321,324
2010s#3,935861
2020s#4,416430
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–644.2%
Generation X 1965–8015.3%
Millennials 1981–9630.4%
Generation Z 1997–1232.8%
2013 and later17.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shira is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shira has been most common in New York (5.8×), New Jersey (4.3×), and Maryland (3.9×), and least common in Ohio (0.17×).

3,785 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Shira

#3,914 Jakayla · 4,996#3,914 Lai · 4,996#3,917 Katlin · 4,993#3,917 Mikael · 4,993

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shira, most common first.

#3,946 Shara · 4,941#9,493 Shera · 1,460#16,275 Shaira · 696#16,310 Shyra · 694#23,114 Shiri · 426#23,266 Shir · 422#28,490 Shirah · 315#36,185 Shiro · 220

Also a last name

As a last name, Shira ranks #35,796 of 156,621, with 675 people. See Shira as a last name

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