Shai
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births · #1,030 for boys in 2025, 215 births
Given to boys 56.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 224 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,469since 1971
Shai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 | #1,030 | 215 |
| 2024 | #1,955 | 101 | #1,087 | 200 |
| 2023 | #1,762 | 116 | #977 | 224 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 | #1,071 | 199 |
| 2020 | #2,441 | 71 | #1,437 | 120 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 | #1,652 | 98 |
| 2018 | #3,293 | 48 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | #2,091 | 66 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | #2,486 | 50 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #2,326 | 55 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #2,314 | 57 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #2,140 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,142 | 63 | #2,041 | 40 |
| 1993 | #1,664 | 90 | #1,875 | 44 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shai! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shai is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,303 · 1 in 13,639
- Florida#1,318 · 1 in 14,358
- Illinois#1,371 · 1 in 14,951
- California#1,725 · 1 in 28,241
Best ever in a state: #178 in District of Columbia, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,303 | 8 | 1 in 13,639 |
| Florida | #1,318 | 7 | 1 in 14,358 |
| Illinois | #1,371 | 5 | 1 in 14,951 |
| California | #1,725 | 9 | 1 in 28,241 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shai
- 57 spots since 2024 (#1,087 → #1,030)
- 407 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,030)
- 1,456 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #1,030)
- Biggest jump: 38 spots in 2023 (#1,015 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 2024 (#977 → #1,087)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2023 at #977 (224 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2023
- Highest: 1 in 7,636 boys born in 2023 were named Shai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,945 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.7% of all boys named Shai (1,177) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2006, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 34 | #3,963 (1971) | #4,399 |
| 1980s | 80 | #3,701 (1984) | #4,918 |
| 1990s | 254 | #1,875 (1993) | #3,349 |
| 2000s | 354 | #2,345 (2008) | #2,992 |
| 2010s | 570 | #1,652 (2019) | #2,395 |
| 2020s | 1,177 | #977 (2023) | #1,103 |
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.
Shai in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 47,273 of them was named Shai, which outranked 80.8% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,859Verenice41
- #3,859Xochilt41
- #3,859Yuritzi41
- #3,936Shai40
- #3,936Aarushi40
- #3,936Aaryn40
- #3,936Abree40
- #4,006Aalyah39
- #4,006Adalina39
- #4,006Aiko39
Tied with 69 names at #3,936; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 37,094 of them was named Shai, which outranked 84.0% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,327Shaurya56
- #2,327Trayton56
- #2,327Zacharia56
- #2,345Shai55
- #2,345Abelardo55
- #2,345Aedyn55
- #2,345Andru55
- #2,374Abdullahi54
- #2,374Bennie54
- #2,374Boaz54
Tied with 28 names at #2,345; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.