Shadow
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Given to boys 55.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 613since 1987
Shadow over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | #2,162 | 36 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
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| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1987
The first year at least five boys were named Shadow! It came in at #6,089, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2012, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shadow is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Shadow in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shadow
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 338 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #5,861)
- 119 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #5,861)
- 1,205 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 1993 at #2,162 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 54,481
- Highest: 1 in 54,481 boys born in 1993 were named Shadow (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 42.1% of all boys named Shadow (258) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 45 | #2,469 (1989) | #4,088 |
| 1990s | 258 | #2,162 (1993) | #2,912 |
| 2000s | 100 | #4,389 (2000) | #7,521 |
| 2010s | 120 | #4,935 (2017) | #7,397 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,215 (2022) | #5,915 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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