Meaning not yet researched.
Shai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 215 in 2025. Its best rank was #983 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #983 in 2023; #1,032 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Shai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,032 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #983.
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Shai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 215 boys in 2025. Peak: #983 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 224 (2023).
In 2025, 215 US boys were named Shai, making it the 1,032nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 57 places from #1,089 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 200 boys named Shai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #983, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #2,521 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Shai, making it the 2,349th most common girls’ name of the year, down 385 places from #1,964 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 101 girls named Shai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,678, reached in 1993. The most girls given the name in a single year was 116, in 2023. For comparison, it was #4,573 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shai in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 4,340 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,746 babies named Shai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,468 US boys were named Shai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,945 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shai ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #434 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shay (13,251 babies since 1880), Shae (7,694 babies since 1880), Shaye (2,862 babies since 1880) and Shaya (2,850 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Shai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 7 | #434 | — |
| New Jersey | 14 | #538 | — |
| New York | 29 | #557 | #1,147 |
| Maryland | 9 | #561 | — |
| Florida | 23 | #700 | #1,655 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #739 | — |
| California | 30 | #826 | #1,436 |
| Georgia | 9 | #975 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,018 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,124 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,288 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,443 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,452 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,349 | 215 | #1,032 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,964 | 200 | #1,089 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,772 | 224 | #983 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,895 | 219 | #1,020 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,022 | 199 | #1,073 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,466 | 120 | #1,449 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,849 | 98 | #1,656 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,338 | 75 | #1,975 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,138 | 66 | #2,107 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,716 | 52 | #2,470 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,573 | 50 | #2,521 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,293 | 35 | #3,208 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,433 | 50 | #2,487 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,474 | 55 | #2,351 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,342 | 44 | #2,734 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,569 | 45 | #2,722 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,465 | 45 | #2,743 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,997 | 55 | #2,373 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,905 | 42 | #2,860 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,781 | 34 | #3,211 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,090 | 27 | #3,602 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,188 | 33 | #3,063 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,070 | 34 | #2,916 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,872 | 35 | #2,741 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,537 | 23 | #3,704 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,111 | 26 | #3,284 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,495 | 17 | #4,311 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,687 | 27 | #3,004 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,303 | 25 | #3,054 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,337 | 28 | #2,735 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,450 | 38 | #2,172 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,162 | 40 | #2,079 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,678 | 44 | #1,896 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,225 | 12 | #4,815 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,873 | 7 | #7,152 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,766 | 16 | #3,749 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,621 | 8 | #6,125 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,196 | 8 | #5,662 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,696 | 10 | #4,526 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,357 | 5 | #7,644 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,088 | 8 | #5,072 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,474 | 11 | #3,895 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,390 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,011 | 7 | #5,528 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,713 | 9 | #4,435 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,238 | 7 | #5,426 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,272 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,485 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,462 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,557 | 8 | #4,356 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,000 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,513 | 7 | #4,562 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,533 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,439 | 5 | #5,624 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,128 | 7 | #4,317 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,055 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,291 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,953 | — | — |
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).