How Many People Are Named Shena?
people named Shena are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 152,787 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,356 babies named Shena in Social Security records from 1952 to 2018, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
198 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHEENA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shena in English. Counting Shena and these spellings together, about 23,740 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shena in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shena alive today is about 45 years old, and 89% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 39 and 50 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shena first appears in the records in 1952 and was given most often in 1984, to 198 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2018.
Babies given the name each year, 1952 to 2018
🏆 Rank History
Shena has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #804, in 1984.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #804 (1984) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,235 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shena alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shena were born in California than in any other state: about 93 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shena was given 2.9 times as often in North Carolina, 2.5 times in Florida and 1.4 times in Illinois.
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