Sheâ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sheâ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicised from Irish Ó Séaghdha.
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 6.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 480 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shea in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicised from Irish Ó Séaghdha.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sheâ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Shea | 17 |
| US United States | #763 | 33,329 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Shea | 480 |
| GB United Kingdom | #741 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 67 | Shea | 173 |
| CA Canada | #615 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 2 | Shea | 206 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Shea | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #271 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Shea | 105 |
| JM Jamaica | #200 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Shea | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sheâ mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicised from Irish Ó Séaghdha. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- Is Sheâ a male or female name?
- Sheâ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sheâ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 222 thousand people named Sheâ in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shea.
- How common is the name Sheâ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,329 people named Sheâ in 2010, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sheâ compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Sheâ is the 200th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/she%C3%A2The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sheâ” — the 200th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.