Shasta
The girl's name Shasta has been in the national records since 1926, with 4,340 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 4,200 Shastas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,340
- Estimated living today
- 4,200
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 716th
- Rank in 2025
- 14,942nd
- First recorded
- 1926
- Girls / boys
- 4,320 / 20
How old the living Shastas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,340 babies given the name since 1926, about 4,200 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Shasta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shasta is most concentrated in Oregon (6.4×), Idaho (4.2×), Tennessee (3.9×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular girls’ names the year Shasta peaked:
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Shasta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.