Shayne

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Peak · boys
1990 · 399 births
Debut · boys
13 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
10,741
since 1950

Shayne over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19401960198020002020peak #1,364, 1974peak #484, 1990girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,88513#3,51332
2024#7,25115#3,98627
2023#8,05513#3,29336
2022#7,28115#3,69130
2021#9,56210#3,24236
2020#4,88026#3,27434
2019#4,77328#2,69447
2018#6,24819#2,21062
2017#4,14735#2,53250
2016#4,15735#1,84581
2015#3,76740#1,72989
2014#3,32648#1,87378
2013#3,40446#1,78281
2012#3,98838#1,535104
2011#3,55044#1,459112
2010#2,51473#1,245141
2009#2,27086#1,459114
2008#2,25387#1,175152
2007#3,42848#1,076172
2006#2,63168#1,073166
2005#2,82758#976178
2004#3,22447#939180
2003#2,77156#893188
2002#2,55461#862192
2001#2,76653#805208
2000#3,80833#724239
1999#3,71832#746216
1998#2,22164#714233
1997#2,22961#650252
1996#2,20761#605294
1995#2,30957#635266
1994#2,02669#567326
1993#1,75384#607292
1992#2,31856#554340
1991#2,66045#541351
1990#2,52347#484399
1989#2,98636#623253
1988#3,69025#549282
1987#3,25728#593233
1986#3,20328#640196
1985#2,60137#702157
1984#2,99229#823113
1983#2,85330#848106
1982#2,70434#766131
1981#2,84731#784123
1980#2,44039#708151
1979#2,99728#718145
1978#2,94227#626177
1977#2,38137#620183
1976#1,93646#621174
1975#1,96345#596183
1974#1,36476#533224
1973#1,37472#507236
1972#1,39471#569198
1971#1,87746#562208
1970#2,16037#541224
1969#1,89743#609166
1968#1,85541#600160
1967#2,43225#705110
1966#2,05832#698112
1965#2,29327#705111
1964#1,97536#76898
1963#2,70421#81686
1962#3,43814#85079
1961#2,67321#726112
1960#2,72920#1,15246
1959#2,86917#1,38732
1958#2,66319#1,44629
1957#2,82317#1,38832
1956#3,04815#2,36112
1955#2,22224#2,55810
1954#2,02727#1,88717
1953#2,30121#2,09914
1952#3,20112—
1951#2,57716#3,0667
1950#3,9628#2,11113
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First appearance
1950

The first year at least five boys were named Shayne! It came in at #2,111, and was given to 13 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Shayne is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Shayne in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shayne
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 473 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #3,513)
  • 239 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #3,513)
  • Biggest jump: 426 spots in 1961
  • Biggest drop: 124 spots in 1962
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1950
  • Peaked 1990 at #484 (399 births)
  • Births halved by 2002, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 45 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1961–2005
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,148
  • Highest: 1 in 5,148 boys born in 1990 were named Shayne (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 27.6% of all boys named Shayne (2,969) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1957
  • Mostly girls until 1956, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s166#1,387 (1959)#2,034
1960s1,080#600 (1968)#763
1970s1,952#507 (1973)#589
1980s1,745#549 (1988)#704
1990s2,969#484 (1990)#610
2000s1,789#724 (2000)#998
2010s845#1,245 (2010)#1,890
2020s195#3,242 (2021)#3,500

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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