Meaning not yet researched.
Shayne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #484 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #484 in 1990; #3,574 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Shayne in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,574 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #484.
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Shayne: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #484 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 399 (1990).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Shayne, making it the 3,574th most common boys’ name of the year, up 486 places from #4,060 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 27 boys named Shayne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #484, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 399. For comparison, it was #1,737 in 2015 and #2,189 in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Shayne, making it the 8,276th most common girls’ name of the year, down 733 places from #7,543 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Shayne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,367, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 87, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,835 in 2015 and #4,261 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shayne in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 6 babies. In all, 13,701 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,545 babies named Shayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 435 US boys were named Shayne; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shane (196,166 babies since 1880), Shaun (73,610 babies since 1880), Shan (3,088 babies since 1880) and Shaan (2,507 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shayanne, Shayann and Shayenne 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: Shayanne (336), Shayann (157), Shayenne (24).
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 Shayne 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 | 13 | #8,276 | 32 | #3,574 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,543 | 27 | #4,060 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,425 | 36 | #3,334 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,587 | 30 | #3,759 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,202 | 36 | #3,285 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,985 | 34 | #3,333 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,888 | 47 | #2,729 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,490 | 62 | #2,228 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,211 | 50 | #2,562 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,232 | 81 | #1,858 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,835 | 89 | #1,737 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,364 | 78 | #1,880 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,453 | 81 | #1,792 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,037 | 104 | #1,539 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,597 | 112 | #1,466 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,535 | 141 | #1,249 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,285 | 114 | #1,467 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,266 | 152 | #1,178 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,473 | 172 | #1,076 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,665 | 166 | #1,076 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,856 | 178 | #979 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,259 | 180 | #942 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,795 | 188 | #896 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,576 | 192 | #865 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,805 | 208 | #807 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,875 | 239 | #724 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,792 | 216 | #746 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,238 | 233 | #714 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,255 | 252 | #651 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,225 | 294 | #606 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,341 | 266 | #636 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,044 | 326 | #570 |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,761 | 292 | #607 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,342 | 340 | #554 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,694 | 351 | #541 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,563 | 399 | #484 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,036 | 253 | #625 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,785 | 282 | #549 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,315 | 233 | #595 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,260 | 196 | #641 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,643 | 157 | #706 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,052 | 113 | #826 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,896 | 106 | #853 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,756 | 131 | #772 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,914 | 123 | #789 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,478 | 151 | #709 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,060 | 145 | #721 |
| 1978 | 27 | #3,000 | 177 | #628 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,415 | 183 | #620 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,961 | 174 | #624 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,981 | 183 | #599 |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,367 | 224 | #534 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,385 | 236 | #507 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,403 | 198 | #570 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,904 | 208 | #563 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,197 | 224 | #543 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,919 | 166 | #609 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,877 | 160 | #601 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,482 | 110 | #710 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,087 | 112 | #702 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,333 | 111 | #710 |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,001 | 98 | #770 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,765 | 86 | #820 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,567 | 79 | #855 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,736 | 112 | #729 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,805 | 46 | #1,164 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,966 | 32 | #1,409 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,735 | 29 | #1,476 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,907 | 32 | #1,408 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,157 | 12 | #2,479 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,272 | 10 | #2,730 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,064 | 17 | #1,946 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,353 | 14 | #2,172 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,678 | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,261 | 13 | #2,189 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,622 | — | — |
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).