Meaning not yet researched.
Shane: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 439 in 2025. Its best rank was #54 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #54 in 1973; #636 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shane in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#636 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #54.
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Shane: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 439 boys in 2025. Peak: #54 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 5,710 (1973).
In 2025, 439 US boys were named Shane, making it the 636th most common boys’ name of the year, down 34 places from #602 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 475 boys named Shane in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #54, reached in 1973. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,710. For comparison, it was #295 in 2015 and #1,388 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shane in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 6 babies. In all, 196,166 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 51,542 babies named Shane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,789 US boys were named Shane; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,068. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,891 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shane ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #321 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaun (73,610 babies since 1880), Shayne (13,701 babies since 1880), Shan (3,088 babies since 1880) and Shaan (2,507 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shain, Shaine and Shaune are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shain (1,241), Shaine (1,235), Shaune (779), Shann (495), Shayn (459), Shanne (85), Shaunn (76), Shaen (52), Zhayne (47), Shahn (34), Shaon (12), Shayane (6), and more.
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 Shane 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 10 | #321 | #258 |
| New York | 56 | #325 | #193 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #342 | #136 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #435 | #192 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #436 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #439 | #141 |
| Illinois | 23 | #467 | #258 |
| Michigan | 16 | #537 | #285 |
| Virginia | 14 | #556 | #296 |
| Ohio | 18 | #574 | #293 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #599 | #440 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #608 | #320 |
| Maryland | 8 | #622 | #275 |
| California | 45 | #637 | #302 |
| Iowa | 5 | #651 | #412 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #695 | #303 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #764 | #382 |
| Georgia | 12 | #782 | #422 |
| Utah | 5 | #793 | #598 |
| Florida | 18 | #841 | #318 |
| Texas | 31 | #853 | #391 |
| Washington | 7 | #883 | #412 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #914 | #404 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #925 | #313 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 439 | #636 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,267 | 475 | #602 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,511 | 528 | #555 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,290 | 582 | #511 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,141 | 598 | #494 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,516 | 569 | #507 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,532 | 739 | #424 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,059 | 875 | #372 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,768 | 916 | #359 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,190 | 1,068 | #325 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,223 | 1,217 | #295 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,586 | 1,298 | #277 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,145 | 1,398 | #257 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,413 | 1,480 | #244 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,523 | 1,643 | #213 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,757 | 1,876 | #198 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,557 | 2,132 | #178 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,119 | 2,307 | #174 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,461 | 2,241 | #184 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,076 | 2,277 | #179 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,254 | 2,459 | #166 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,158 | 2,476 | #165 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,569 | 2,816 | #144 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,795 | 3,030 | #130 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,548 | 3,116 | #128 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,382 | 3,275 | #116 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,555 | 3,247 | #110 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,288 | 3,166 | #118 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,358 | 3,317 | #114 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,506 | 3,488 | #112 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,340 | 3,630 | #103 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,407 | 4,085 | #92 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,171 | 4,438 | #84 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,184 | 4,847 | #77 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,676 | 5,106 | #75 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,951 | 5,274 | #73 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,066 | 4,860 | #71 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,963 | 5,173 | #67 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,608 | 5,305 | #65 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,524 | 4,929 | #67 |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,438 | 4,549 | #68 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,829 | 3,335 | #85 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,709 | 3,404 | #84 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,782 | 3,539 | #84 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,488 | 3,710 | #81 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,699 | 4,365 | #69 |
| 1979 | 93 | #1,336 | 4,482 | #67 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,418 | 4,480 | #65 |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,322 | 4,868 | #61 |
| 1976 | 101 | #1,150 | 5,095 | #57 |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,090 | 5,209 | #57 |
| 1974 | 157 | #840 | 5,655 | #56 |
| 1973 | 221 | #678 | 5,710 | #54 |
| 1972 | 203 | #711 | 5,236 | #55 |
| 1971 | 113 | #1,072 | 5,093 | #60 |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,189 | 4,451 | #64 |
| 1969 | 83 | #1,231 | 3,531 | #87 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,592 | 2,513 | #120 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,843 | 1,967 | #145 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,731 | 1,315 | #186 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,594 | 1,025 | #228 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,087 | 903 | #256 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,607 | 851 | #263 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,520 | 704 | #289 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,934 | 582 | #325 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,190 | 532 | #337 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,849 | 496 | #351 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,564 | 411 | #386 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,649 | 390 | #387 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,916 | 346 | #409 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,707 | 305 | #420 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,506 | 354 | #377 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,245 | 184 | #524 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,909 | 37 | #1,224 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,458 | 38 | #1,190 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,206 | 28 | #1,388 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,599 | 27 | #1,430 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,951 | 22 | #1,602 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,996 | 20 | #1,726 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,802 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,895 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,570 | 11 | #2,368 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,982 | 17 | #1,746 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,832 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,911 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,879 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,913 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,720 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,586 |
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).