Shaye

Where Shaye comes from

The dictionaries list Shaye as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #3,106 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Peak, #1,359
    128 babies named Shaye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,556.
  4. 2024
    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.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Shaye hasn't yet.

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.