Shena
Tracey Elizabeth McSween, better known by her stage names Shèna and Shèna Winchester, is an English disco and house singer, known for featuring on Michael Gray's song "The Weekend".
- English
Meaning & Origin of Shena
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tracey Elizabeth McSween, better known by her stage names Shèna and Shèna Winchester, is an English disco and house singer, known for featuring on Michael Gray's song "The Weekend".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Shena
The earliest SSA record of Shena as a baby girl name dates back to 1952, when 10 babies received it. 1984 was its biggest year on record, with 198 newborns named Shena — #802 in the national rankings. About 48% of every Shena on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Shena last appeared in the published SSA data in 2018, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Shena
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Names that sound like Shena
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About the name Shena
Shena is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1952 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Shena's peak popularity came in 1984 when it ranked #802. Use the chart and map above to compare Shena's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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