Shady — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shady

The Social Security Administration has registered 328 babies named Shady between 1915 and 2023, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shady currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Shady is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 202 additional births since 1941.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shady performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shady shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shady in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 328 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.