Shaye
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 76.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 128 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,188since 1951
Shaye 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 | #10,107 | 9 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #2,240 | 78 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #2,016 | 82 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #1,874 | 84 | #3,376 | 23 |
| 1998 | #1,359 | 128 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #1,671 | 94 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #1,466 | 112 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #2,282 | 58 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 | #3,920 | 15 |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #2,640 | 44 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #2,572 | 44 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,683 | 27 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1951
The first year at least five girls were named Shaye! It came in at #3,106, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 5,186 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,107)
- 4,024 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #10,107)
- 5,523 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
47 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1998 at #1,359 (128 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,804
- Highest: 1 in 13,804 girls born in 1998 were named Shaye (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 33.5% of all girls named Shaye (734) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 27 | #3,106 (1951) | #4,235 |
| 1960s | 63 | #4,222 (1968) | #5,590 |
| 1970s | 197 | #2,683 (1974) | #3,534 |
| 1980s | 265 | #2,572 (1989) | #3,506 |
| 1990s | 734 | #1,359 (1998) | #2,084 |
| 2000s | 603 | #1,995 (2001) | #2,928 |
| 2010s | 222 | #4,494 (2010) | #6,343 |
| 2020s | 77 | #6,083 (2020) | #9,009 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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