How popular is “Shay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shay” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shay” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Shay” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Shay” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Shay” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Shay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shay” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1932	5	0.000002368		5	-100%
1953	7	0.000001816	7		100%
1954	11	0.000002763	6	5	9%
1955	5	0.000001245	5		100%
1956	6	0.000001455	6		100%
1957	20	0.000004759	15	5	50%
1958	7	0.000001693	7		100%
1959	14	0.000003367	9	5	29%
1960	23	0.000005537	11	12	-4%
1961	36	0.000008691	20	16	11%
1962	42	0.000010408	29	13	38%
1963	41	0.000010358	27	14	32%
1964	32	0.000008231	18	14	13%
1965	41	0.000011309	33	8	61%
1966	40	0.000011509	22	18	10%
1967	39	0.000011488	28	11	44%
1968	66	0.000019536	34	32	3%
1969	91	0.000026185	53	38	16%
1970	202	0.00005601	133	69	32%
1971	204	0.000059434	149	55	46%
1972	181	0.000057588	116	65	28%
1973	194	0.000064305	115	79	19%
1974	208	0.000068421	130	78	25%
1975	172	0.000056965	98	74	14%
1976	156	0.000051412	84	72	8%
1977	142	0.000044703	65	77	-8%
1978	178	0.000056083	107	71	20%
1979	175	0.0000526	89	86	2%
1980	221	0.00006416	134	87	21%
1981	195	0.000056369	115	80	18%
1982	162	0.000046181	100	62	23%
1983	149	0.000043022	92	57	23%
1984	164	0.000047008	97	67	18%
1985	166	0.00004651	93	73	12%
1986	156	0.000043856	92	64	18%
1987	220	0.000061016	114	106	4%
1988	234	0.000063328	106	128	-9%
1989	247	0.000064249	124	123	0%
1990	246	0.000062239	128	118	4%
1991	271	0.000069572	117	154	-14%
1992	238	0.000061959	129	109	8%
1993	242	0.000064186	127	115	5%
1994	287	0.000077199	157	130	9%
1995	290	0.000079188	161	129	11%
1996	274	0.000075126	158	116	15%
1997	258	0.000071158	157	101	22%
1998	238	0.000064705	148	90	24%
1999	251	0.00006795	167	84	33%
2000	249	0.000065875	156	93	25%
2001	186	0.000049688	125	61	34%
2002	215	0.000057513	140	75	30%
2003	232	0.000061015	131	101	13%
2004	233	0.00006098	141	92	21%
2005	213	0.000055399	123	90	15%
2006	214	0.000054092	122	92	14%
2007	215	0.000053781	127	88	18%
2008	223	0.000056733	148	75	33%
2009	195	0.000051045	109	86	12%
2010	180	0.000048705	112	68	24%
2011	178	0.000048663	102	76	15%
2012	145	0.000039646	84	61	16%
2013	168	0.000046082	115	53	37%
2014	197	0.000053152	144	53	46%
2015	234	0.000063228	172	62	47%
2016	258	0.000070325	171	87	33%
2017	252	0.000070466	180	72	43%
2018	255	0.000072528	168	87	32%
2019	273	0.000078653	199	74	46%
2020	364	0.000108963	277	87	52%
2021	409	0.000120722	300	109	47%
2022	403	0.00011912	301	102	49%
2023	345	0.000104192	255	90	48%
2024	306	0.000091933	208	98	36%

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