Shena
Recorded 1952–2018 · United States
Shena was most popular in 1984, when 198 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,374 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,356 people named Shena.
Shena over time
How old is the name Shena?
Shena first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1952, which makes it about 73 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 50 of the 74 years since. It was last recorded in 2018.
How many people are named Shena?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,356 American births named Shena between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,248 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shena in 2025?
Shena was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Shena getting more or less popular?
Shena is out of use. It averaged 7 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Shena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shena is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,356 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shena?
Roughly 2,248 Americans named Shena are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 44 years old, and half are between 40 and 52. That is a narrow band: Shena arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shena is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org