How Many People Are Named Shira?
people named Shira are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 60,589 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,815 babies named Shira in Social Security records from 1941 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
159 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "poetry" or "singing" in Hebrew.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shira in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shira alive today is about 29 years old, and 53% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shira first appears in the records in 1941 and was given most often in 2009, to 159 babies. In 2025, 79 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1941 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shira has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #979, in 1985. In 2025 it ranked #2,321.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,321 |
| Best rank | #979 (1985) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,569 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shira alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shira were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,657 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shira was given 6.6 times as often in New York, 4.5 times in New Jersey and 3.7 times in Maryland.
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