Shaya
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #1,370 for boys in 2025, 135 births
Given to boys 63.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,809since 1955
Shaya 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #1,370 | 135 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | #1,432 | 127 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,489 | 120 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,760 | 94 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | #1,606 | 106 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #1,515 | 112 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,032 | 69 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #1,828 | 82 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #2,492 | 50 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #2,467 | 50 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #3,410 | 25 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shaya! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shaya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#212 · 1 in 928
- New Jersey#293 · 1 in 1,326
- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #212 in New York, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #212 | 91 | 1 in 928 |
| New Jersey | #293 | 30 | 1 in 1,326 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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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 Shaya
- 62 spots since 2024 (#1,432 → #1,370)
- 445 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,370)
- 1,042 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #1,370)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2025 at #1,370 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,652 boys born in 2025 were named Shaya (0.01%)
- 36.7% of all boys named Shaya (664) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 19 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,899 |
| 1980s | 58 | #4,271 (1989) | #5,393 |
| 1990s | 128 | #3,467 (1990) | #4,945 |
| 2000s | 283 | #2,800 (2009) | #3,492 |
| 2010s | 652 | #1,515 (2019) | #2,189 |
| 2020s | 664 | #1,370 (2025) | #1,579 |
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.
Shaya in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 44,646 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 77.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #3,903Yashvi37
- #3,903Zhavia37
- #3,903Zuriyah37
- #3,975Shaya36
- #3,975Abigaelle36
- #3,975Adalet36
- #3,975Ailanie36
- #4,067Adaiah35
- #4,067Aella35
- #4,067Aili35
Tied with 91 names at #3,975; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,652 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 90.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,366Holland136
- #1,366Jeriah136
- #1,366Kye136
- #1,370Shaya135
- #1,370Baron135
- #1,370Jaire135
- #1,370Jakob135
- #1,376Coen134
- #1,376Kamryn134
- #1,376Kashmir134
Tied with 5 names at #1,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.