Shaw
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Given to boys 95.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,336since 1914
Shaw over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Shaw has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | — | #4,112 | 26 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,412 | 34 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,497 | 32 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,980 | 39 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,115 | 36 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,901 | 19 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,011 | 25 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,384 | 31 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | — | #5,246 | 15 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,558 | 13 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,064 | 24 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,094 | 19 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,350 | 15 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,357 | 22 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,493 | 19 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,496 | 19 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,465 | 19 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,203 | 12 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,001 | 23 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #1,692 | 28 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | — | #2,020 | 20 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1914
The first year at least five boys were named Shaw! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shaw is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Shaw in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shaw
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,727 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
60 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1974 at #1,692 (28 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 3 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 44,258
- Highest: 1 in 44,258 boys born in 2020 were named Shaw (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,692 in 1974, was only 1 in 56,155 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 21.3% of all boys named Shaw (284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #2,915 (1914) | #2,915 |
| 1920s | 12 | #3,532 (1922) | #3,909 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,480 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,797 |
| 1960s | 71 | #2,415 (1969) | #3,207 |
| 1970s | 195 | #1,692 (1974) | #2,257 |
| 1980s | 179 | #2,226 (1986) | #2,907 |
| 1990s | 186 | #2,909 (1992) | #3,594 |
| 2000s | 205 | #3,384 (2006) | #4,450 |
| 2010s | 284 | #3,115 (2012) | #3,819 |
| 2020s | 177 | #2,980 (2020) | #3,818 |
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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