Meaning not yet researched.
Shaya: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,375 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 79% of babies named Shaya in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,375 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Shaya: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,375 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 135 (2025).
In 2025, 135 US boys were named Shaya, making it the 1,375th most common boys’ name of the year, up 61 places from #1,436 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 127 boys named Shaya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,375, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #2,427 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Shaya, making it the 4,055th most common girls’ name of the year, down 174 places from #3,881 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 39 girls named Shaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,877, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 39, in 2024. For comparison, it was #6,208 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaya in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 2,850 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 875 babies named Shaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,010 US boys were named Shaya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,652 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shaya ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #216 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), Shai (4,340 babies since 1880) and Shaye (2,862 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 Shaya 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 91 | #216 | #418 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #298 | #835 |
| California | 5 | #2,757 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,055 | 135 | #1,375 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,881 | 127 | #1,436 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,983 | 120 | #1,496 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,031 | 94 | #1,769 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,495 | 106 | #1,611 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,435 | 82 | #1,826 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,291 | 112 | #1,522 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,443 | 83 | #1,833 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,788 | 69 | #2,047 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,633 | 82 | #1,841 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,208 | 53 | #2,427 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,884 | 50 | #2,510 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,808 | 49 | #2,519 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,564 | 51 | #2,480 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,700 | 53 | #2,400 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,354 | 50 | #2,504 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,685 | 43 | #2,839 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,121 | 30 | #3,638 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,358 | 28 | #3,777 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,357 | 31 | #3,441 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,579 | 29 | #3,440 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,525 | 29 | #3,358 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,648 | 28 | #3,354 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,349 | 24 | #3,650 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,981 | 25 | #3,495 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,906 | 16 | #4,755 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,186 | 16 | #4,503 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,033 | 17 | #4,172 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,443 | 12 | #5,229 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,859 | 10 | #5,905 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,199 | 9 | #6,334 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,946 | 11 | #5,398 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,208 | 15 | #4,186 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,680 | 5 | #9,599 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,366 | 16 | #3,791 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,417 | 17 | #3,580 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,107 | 12 | #4,484 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,564 | 9 | #5,157 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,926 | 9 | #4,783 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,985 | 5 | #7,422 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,320 | 7 | #5,488 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,046 | 6 | #6,106 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,877 | 5 | #7,213 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,528 | 5 | #7,116 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,361 | 7 | #5,279 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,390 | 6 | #5,663 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,790 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,039 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,355 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,532 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,374 | — | — |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,317 |
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).