How Many People Are Named Shasta?

4,164

people named Shasta are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 82,080 people in the US has this name

Based on 4,340 babies named Shasta in Social Security records from 1926 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,187

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,362

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Peak Year

1979

235 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.5%
Male
0.5%

Almost all of the babies given the name Shasta (99.5%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shasta alive today is about 40 years old, and 81% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 34 and 46 in 2025.

Under 30 651
15.6%
30 to 59 3,375
81.1%
60 and over 138
3.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shasta first appears in the records in 1926 and was given most often in 1979, to 235 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1926 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Shasta has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #700, in 1978. In 2025 it ranked #16,899.

Girls
Rank in 2025#16,899
Best rank#700 (1978)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#910 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Shasta alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Shasta were born in California than in any other state: about 519 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shasta was given 5.5 times as often in Oregon, 4.3 times in Tennessee and 2.8 times in Alabama.

California 519
Texas 249
Tennessee 182
Oregon 131
Ohio 130
North Carolina 110
Alabama 93
Washington 64
Louisiana 63
Kentucky 58
Michigan 57
Florida 55
Oklahoma 54
Arkansas 54
Georgia 51
Indiana 45
West Virginia 41
Idaho 37
Utah 34
Missouri 32
Illinois 23
Pennsylvania 22
Mississippi 19
Nevada 14
Colorado 13
Kansas 11
Arizona 10
Montana 7
Wisconsin 6
New Mexico 5
Virginia 5
New York 5
Nebraska 5

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