Quick answers about Sheba
How many people are named Sheba?
An estimated 998 living Americans are named Sheba.
How rare is Sheba?
Sheba fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Sheba?
The median age of a living American named Sheba is approximately 48 years, with most bearers falling between 38 and 56 years old.
Is Sheba still popular?
Not especially. Sheba has been declining since its 1975 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Sheba most common?
Sheba has its strongest geographic signal in New York, where it appears 2.1× more often than the national baseline.
1916Peak 19752025
Where it lives now
Sheba is most concentrated in New York — about 2.1× the national rate in the 1970s.
States where Sheba is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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