Feminine dossier · first seen 1926

Shasta

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Shasta
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 95.3% from peak

Peak era

1979

Peak rank proxy

235

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1926Peak 19792024

Peak year

1979

Decline from peak

95.3%

2024

All-time

4,315

Shasta once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1979, when 235 girls were named Shasta.

In 2024, only 11 girls were given the name.

Down 95.3% from its peak.

All told, about 4,315 Americans have been named Shasta and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1926.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 95.3% from peak

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