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Sheena

Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#7,883 for girls

Sheena is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Sheena mean?

Scottish

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Sheena a girl's or a boy's name?

Sheena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sheena in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 31 girls.

Half of all the girls named Sheena in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 31 in 19962020
Sheena in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20201#7,326
20190–
20181#7,536
20173#5,998
20163#6,009
20150–
20148#3,031
20135#4,267
20124#5,058
20118#3,041
20109#2,741
20098#2,909
20084#4,742
20076#3,396
200611#2,119
200513#1,807
200412#1,812
20038#2,320
200211#1,755
20015#2,928
200019#1,137
199912#1,576
199824#981
199725#940
199631#798

How popular is Sheena in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,883rd among girls
Babies in 2025
13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Sheena, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 1984, with 3,597 girls. It first appears in the records in 1943.

Half of all the girls named Sheena in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 1987, the years shaded on the chart below.

1943Busiest: 3,597 in 19842025
Sheena in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202418#6,391
202312#8,481
202212#8,536
20218#11,141
202013#7,964
201913#8,134
201828#4,766
201720#6,040
201626#5,129
201530#4,583
201419#6,449
201322#5,831
201231#4,599
201127#5,061
201027#5,106
200941#3,799
200842#3,778
200743#3,720
200642#3,668
200539#3,726
200444#3,387
200341#3,468
200246#3,099
200181#2,060
200066#2,328
199952#2,672
199880#1,896
199790#1,716
1996114#1,436
1995141#1,211
1994181#1,022
1993247#809
1992365#620
1991418#560
1990522#468
1989767#328
1988856#290
19871,154#231
19861,574#173
19853,062#91
19843,597#80
19832,636#107
19821,956#149
1981657#356
1980144#1,009
1979143#995
1978148#949
1977148#936
1976122#1,022
1975113#1,048
1974127#969
1973132#929
1972136#912
1971114#1,057
197091#1,224
196978#1,270
196865#1,387
196766#1,348
196660#1,416
196577#1,226
1964100#1,091
1963101#1,073
196285#1,192
196173#1,296
1960119#979
1959123#943
1958120#940
1957164#786
1956137#845
195533#1,838
195420#2,449
195328#1,930
195237#1,577
195128#1,841
195034#1,601
194926#1,881
194826#1,857
194737#1,544
194618#2,227
194514#2,338
194411#2,761
19439#3,248

Names like Sheena

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Jessica, Erin, Cara, Holly, Tara, Amber, Francesca, Jasmine, Molly, Lara, Sarah, Kayla

Names related to Sheena

Sena, Shenai, Sheina, Sheyenne, Seena, Shaena, Shenia

More Scottish names

Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sheena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sheena, updated 20 October 2026.