Shai

Where Shai comes from

Shai hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    Shai Piron born
    Israeli politician
  2. 1971
    First appearance
    #3,963 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1987
    Shai Maestro born
    Israeli pianist
  4. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2023
    Peak, #977
    224 babies named Shai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shai Piron · Israeli politician, born 1965
  • Shai Maestro · Israeli pianist, born 1987
  • Shai Wosner · Israeli pianist, born 1976
  • Shai Livnat · Israeli swimmer, born 1984
  • Shai Hermesh · Israeli politician, born 1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.