girls:
22.3k births since 1943
#955 (83rd percentile)
boys:
67 births since 1982
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
22.4k births since 1943
#1697 (78th percentile)
The name Sheena is the #1,697 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,412 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 78.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #955 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,345 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1982.
Sheena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1982 for boys).
The name Sheena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sheena reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 90.0% percentile (ranked #80) with 1,995 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 1,995 births per million (ranked 90.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Sheena ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sheena reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #680) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sheena".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sheena is pronounced as SHEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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