Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shaye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shaye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shaye” 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 “Shaye” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shaye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shaye” 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
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 6 5 9%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 5 5 0%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 22 0.00000641 16 6 45%
1972 26 0.000008272 18 8 38%
1973 28 0.000009281 21 7 50%
1974 39 0.000012829 27 12 38%
1975 24 0.000007949 18 6 50%
1976 29 0.000009557 22 7 52%
1977 29 0.00000913 21 8 45%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 100%
1979 31 0.000009318 20 11 29%
1980 36 0.000010451 36 100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 24 0.000006842 16 8 33%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 22 0.000006306 16 6 45%
1985 33 0.000009246 28 5 70%
1986 35 0.00000984 21 14 20%
1987 41 0.000011371 30 11 46%
1988 49 0.000013261 34 15 39%
1989 68 0.000017688 44 24 29%
1990 56 0.000014168 44 12 57%
1991 73 0.000018741 58 15 59%
1992 70 0.000018223 55 15 57%
1993 67 0.000017771 50 17 49%
1994 61 0.000016408 51 10 67%
1995 81 0.000022118 58 23 43%
1996 133 0.000036466 112 21 68%
1997 120 0.000033097 94 26 57%
1998 152 0.000041324 128 24 68%
1999 107 0.000028967 84 23 57%
2000 105 0.000027778 82 23 56%
2001 105 0.000028049 85 20 62%
2002 91 0.000024343 75 16 65%
2003 83 0.000021829 63 20 52%
2004 95 0.000024863 78 17 64%
2005 61 0.000015865 50 11 64%
2006 64 0.000016177 55 9 72%
2007 52 0.000013008 36 16 38%
2008 55 0.000013993 40 15 45%
2009 60 0.000015706 39 21 30%
2010 47 0.000012717 32 15 36%
2011 37 0.000010115 28 9 51%
2012 34 0.000009296 23 11 35%
2013 36 0.000009875 31 5 72%
2014 28 0.000007555 18 10 29%
2015 44 0.000011889 30 14 36%
2016 27 0.00000736 22 5 63%
2017 21 0.000005872 9 12 -14%
2018 29 0.000008248 19 10 31%
2019 20 0.000005762 10 10 0%
2020 33 0.000009879 19 14 15%
2021 19 0.000005608 12 7 26%
2022 26 0.000007685 18 8 38%
2023 23 0.000006946 14 9 22%
2024 18 0.000005408 5 13 -44%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Shaye:

  1. Shaydee
  2. Shayden
  3. Shaydie
  4. Shaydin
  5. Shaydon
  6. Shaye (this page)
  7. Shayeeda
  8. Shayenne
  9. Shayera
  10. Shayla
  11. Shaylah