Girls' name · peaked in 1984

Sheena name popularity since 1925

22,447 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Sheena. Half of them were born in 1984 or earlier, so the typical Sheena is about 42 years old in 2026. Sheena peaked in 1984 as the #80 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 22,447; Named Sheena, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1984; #80 for girls that year
Typical age: About 42; Median birth year 1984
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #8,277 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.7% girls; 22,380 girls · 67 boys
Most popular in: Tennessee; 1.61× its national share

Peak year is the year Sheena made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Sheena births per year, 1925–2025

1984 was the biggest year for Sheena both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1979 and 1984, Sheena became 24× more common, from 1 in 11,200 baby girls to 1 in 468.
Steepest fall: Between 1985 and 1990, its share of baby girls fell by 85%, from 1 in 562 to 1 in 3,640.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Sheena's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Sheena.

Decade by decade

Babies named Sheena in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	141	0	#2,438
1950s	724	0	#1,871
1960s	824	0	#1,237
1970s	1,274	0	#1,052
1980s	16,403	67	#91
1990s	2,210	0	#1,224
2000s	485	0	#3,801
2010s	243	0	#4,705
2020–25	76	0	#8,277

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

81.6% of babies named Sheena from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Sheena is most popular

The index compares Sheena's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Sheena.

State	Index	Babies
Tennessee	1.61×	671
Georgia	1.42×	776
Virginia	1.38×	613
Florida	1.36×	968
Kentucky	1.35×	445

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Sheena's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Sheena.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Sheena (1984).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data