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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
Where Shaye is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#751 · 1 in 6,281
- New Jersey#1,054 · 1 in 8,352
- California#2,595 · 1 in 31,976
- Texas#2,617 · 1 in 30,636
Best ever in a state: #455 in Iowa, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #751 | 5 | 1 in 6,281 |
| New Jersey | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 8,352 |
| California | #2,595 | 7 | 1 in 31,976 |
| Texas | #2,617 | 5 | 1 in 30,636 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Shaye
- 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)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1998 at #1,359 (128 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 33.5% of all girls named Shaye (734) were born in this decade
- 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.
Shaye in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 22,147 of them was named Shaye, which outranked 88.6% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,998Shanelle83
- #1,998Tala83
- #1,998Zaire83
- #2,016Shaye82
- #2,016Araya82
- #2,016Carlene82
- #2,016Chyenne82
- #2,034Alexsandra81
- #2,034Amyah81
- #2,034Angelita81
Tied with 17 names at #2,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 85,391 of them was named Shaye, which outranked 70.8% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,423Yannick24
- #3,423Zacarias24
- #3,423Zaccary24
- #3,536Shaye23
- #3,536Aaren23
- #3,536Aarron23
- #3,536Aaryn23
- #3,640Abdulla22
- #3,640Abiel22
- #3,640Abisai22
Tied with 103 names at #3,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.