Shasta
Shasta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 700th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1979235 births
- Best rank
- #700in 1978
- Since 1926
- 4,315people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,315 girls have been named Shasta in the United States since 1926, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 235 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 235 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 41%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shasta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 8 | |
| 1950s | 93 | |
| 1960s | 102 | |
| 1970s | 1,119 | |
| 1980s | 1,784 | |
| 1990s | 764 | |
| 2000s | 277 | |
| 2010s | 124 | |
| 2020s | 39 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Shasta was the 716th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Shasta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shavonnepeak 1979
- Lakeyapeak 1981
- Brandipeak 1981
- Megganpeak 1985
- Teneshapeak 1984
- Shavonpeak 1979
- Lashondrapeak 1980
- Tenishapeak 1983
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.