Meaning not yet researched.
Shaye: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,681 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,681 in 1989; #8,145 in 2025. About 53% of babies named Shaye in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,145 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #2,681.
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Shaye: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,681 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 26 (1997).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Shaye, making it the 8,145th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,376 places from #6,769 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 boys named Shaye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,681, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 26, in 1997. For comparison, it was #6,260 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Shaye, making it the 10,790th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,531 places from #17,321 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 5 girls named Shaye in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,361, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 128. For comparison, it was #4,703 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaye in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 12 babies. In all, 2,862 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 920 babies named Shaye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US boys were named Shaye; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 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 Shaye in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,790 | 10 | #8,145 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,321 | 13 | #6,769 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,997 | 9 | #8,813 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,675 | 8 | #9,699 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,906 | 7 | #10,612 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,290 | 14 | #6,238 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,372 | 10 | #8,119 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,488 | 10 | #8,065 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,484 | 12 | #7,033 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,958 | 5 | #13,890 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,703 | 14 | #6,260 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,946 | 10 | #8,034 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,633 | 5 | #13,753 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,867 | 11 | #7,467 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,045 | 9 | #8,655 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,588 | 15 | #5,993 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,005 | 21 | #4,718 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,999 | 15 | #6,016 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,282 | 16 | #5,637 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,083 | 9 | #8,615 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,164 | 11 | #7,028 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,260 | 17 | #4,970 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,572 | 20 | #4,254 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,221 | 16 | #4,875 |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,008 | 20 | #4,094 |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,033 | 23 | #3,623 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,890 | 23 | #3,466 |
| 1998 | 128 | #1,361 | 24 | #3,282 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,679 | 26 | #2,969 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,476 | 21 | #3,383 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,307 | 23 | #3,084 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,500 | 10 | #5,811 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,525 | 17 | #3,792 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,380 | 15 | #4,073 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,266 | 15 | #3,980 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,686 | 12 | #4,631 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,605 | 24 | #2,681 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,032 | 15 | #3,502 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,156 | 11 | #4,197 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,003 | 14 | #3,414 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,228 | 5 | #7,423 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,700 | 6 | #6,208 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,688 | 8 | #4,932 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,881 | 11 | #3,777 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,589 | 8 | #4,518 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,266 | 7 | #4,853 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,746 | 6 | #5,356 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,747 | 12 | #3,096 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,217 | 7 | #4,433 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,512 | 8 | #3,916 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,916 | 6 | #4,830 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,342 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,886 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,441 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,400 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,643 | 5 | #4,525 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,460 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,453 | 5 | #4,539 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,279 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,390 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,261 | — | — |
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).