Shasta
Shasta was the 16904th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 5 babies. Its best year was 1978, when it ranked 700th; the most babies were born in 1979 (235). Over the last ten years it has moved down 8,961 places. More babies were named Shasta in the 1980s than in any other decade.
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- Rank in 2025
- #16,904 girls, up 254 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 5girls
- Girls and boys
- 89% girls, 11% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 1979235 babies
- Total since 1880
- 4,340babies recorded
Shasta popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,904 | — | 5 | — |
| 2020 | #17,158 | — | 5 | — |
| 2010 | #7,830 | — | 16 | — |
| 2000 | #2,894 | — | 50 | — |
| 1990 | #1,264 | — | 130 | — |
| 1980 | #753 | — | 220 | — |
| 1970 | #3,413 | — | 19 | — |
| 1960 | #3,486 | — | 14 | — |
| 1950 | #5,985 | — | 5 | — |
| 1940 | — | — | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — | — | — |
| 1910 | — | — | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — | — | — |
How popular is Shasta, counting every spelling?
Shasta has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Shasta?
5 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Shasta (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Shasta born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 1,661 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Shasta.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Shasta?
About 4,100 people born in the US named Shasta are alive today, with a median age of 42; half are between 35 and 47. That makes Shasta mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
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Questions about the name Shasta
How popular is the name Shasta?
Shasta was the 16904th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 5 babies. Its best year was 1978, when it ranked 700th; the most babies were born in 1979 (235). Over the last ten years it has moved down 8,961 places. More babies were named Shasta in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Is Shasta a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 89% girls, 11% boys given the name Shasta in the US.