Sheena
About 22,447 American babies have been named Sheena since 1943, most of them around 1984. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 22,000 Sheenas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sheena boys named Sheena
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 22,447
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 80th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 22,380 / 67
How old the living Sheenas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 22,447 babies given the name since 1943, about 22,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 400 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. 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 the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
Anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Sìne and Síne, ultimately from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה, the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן which produced John and its many doublets.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sheenas
- Sheena Easton (born 1959)Scottish singer
- Ringo Sheena (born 1978)Japanese singer-songwriter
- Sheena Tosta (born 1982)American hurdler
- Sheena Shahabadi (born 1986)Indian actress
- Sheena Chohan (born 1953)Indian actor-model
- Sheena Iyengar (born 1969)Professor at Columbia Business School
People named Sheena with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sheena is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sheena is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.3×), Alaska (2.2×), Wyoming (1.8×), Tennessee (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Sheena peaked:
Sheena elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Sheena | 652 | 174th |
| Scotland girls | Sheena | 295 | 145th |
| England and Wales girls | Sheena | 212 | 802nd |
| France girls | Sheena | 55 | 2,466th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sheena among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Sheena | 8 | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sheena against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.