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Shae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #922 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #922 in 1998; #2,061 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Shae in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,061 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #922.
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Shae: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #922 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 227 (1998).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Shae, making it the 2,061st most common girls’ name of the year, up 111 places from #2,172 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 88 girls named Shae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #922, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 227. For comparison, it was #1,665 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Shae, making it the 7,120th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,575 places from #4,545 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 23 boys named Shae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,334, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #5,946 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shae in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 11 babies. In all, 7,694 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,240 babies named Shae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 986 US girls were named Shae; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shae ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #998 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shay (13,251 babies since 1880), Shai (4,340 babies since 1880), Shaye (2,862 babies since 1880) and Shaya (2,850 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #998 | #1,107 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,220 | #1,425 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,420 | #1,668 |
| New York | 8 | #1,636 | #1,594 |
| California | 8 | #2,459 | #1,427 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,061 | 12 | #7,120 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,172 | 23 | #4,545 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,735 | 26 | #4,197 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,990 | 26 | #4,169 |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,766 | 22 | #4,604 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,049 | 15 | #5,931 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,030 | 13 | #6,717 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,865 | 17 | #5,506 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,351 | 15 | #6,024 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,014 | 14 | #6,297 |
| 2015 | 129 | #1,665 | 15 | #5,946 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,992 | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,631 | 21 | #4,592 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,334 | 17 | #5,448 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,389 | 26 | #3,970 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,150 | 19 | #5,005 |
| 2009 | 115 | #1,858 | 25 | #4,140 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,876 | 32 | #3,477 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,664 | 35 | #3,236 |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,478 | 54 | #2,344 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,530 | 39 | #2,797 |
| 2004 | 177 | #1,238 | 37 | #2,834 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,381 | 50 | #2,202 |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,263 | 36 | #2,674 |
| 2001 | 150 | #1,294 | 31 | #2,979 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,165 | 47 | #2,170 |
| 1999 | 203 | #1,011 | 54 | #1,848 |
| 1998 | 227 | #922 | 50 | #1,953 |
| 1997 | 190 | #1,017 | 59 | #1,691 |
| 1996 | 184 | #1,019 | 51 | #1,813 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,029 | 59 | #1,586 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,090 | 48 | #1,818 |
| 1993 | 177 | #1,043 | 59 | #1,552 |
| 1992 | 118 | #1,401 | 57 | #1,565 |
| 1991 | 139 | #1,232 | 53 | #1,610 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,562 | 70 | #1,334 |
| 1989 | 129 | #1,238 | 37 | #1,986 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,365 | 45 | #1,615 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,325 | 36 | #1,827 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,614 | 32 | #1,912 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,131 | 22 | #2,415 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,043 | 17 | #2,800 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,988 | 10 | #4,095 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,848 | 7 | #5,525 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,783 | 8 | #4,890 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,121 | 16 | #2,936 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,946 | 13 | #3,323 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,041 | 15 | #2,902 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,052 | 22 | #2,195 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,726 | 14 | #2,930 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,868 | 17 | #2,522 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,873 | 12 | #3,093 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,728 | 19 | #2,199 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,265 | 15 | #2,519 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,930 | 7 | #4,315 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,982 | 12 | #2,866 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,178 | 7 | #3,884 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,160 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,937 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,784 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,375 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,276 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,457 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).