Entry № 9538 · Irish origin

Shea Shea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Admirable (Shea Stadium + modern unisex name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "admirable (shea stadium + modern unisex name)".

Shea is from the Irish Ó Séaghdha — admirable, hawk-like. Shea Moisture — American haircare brand (founded 1991). Shea butter — the West African moisturizer.

Admirable (Shea Stadium + modern unisex name) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Shea
Transliteration
Shea
Pronunciation
/ ʃeɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shea stands.

Shea does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sheas before her.

Real people
Shea McGee
American interior designer.
born 1984
Shea Whigham
American actor.
born 1969
In fiction
Shea Stadium
NYC venue.
1964

Names connected to Shea.

The number behind Shea.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shea reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.