Shae
Shae is given to both girls and boys: 92 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,061 among girls’ names and #7,116 among boys’, #3,465 among all names counting both); 7,694 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,510 Americans named Shae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shae?
#2,061 among girls’ names, 2025
Shae fell from #1,665 in 2015 to #2,061 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.3 to 57.2 per million.
277 babies in 1998, the peak
Shae peaked in 1998, when 277 babies were given it (227 girls, #921 among girls’ names). The 104 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,061 | 12 | #7,116 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,172 | 23 | #4,541 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,735 | 26 | #4,193 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,990 | 26 | #4,165 |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,766 | 22 | #4,600 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,049 | 15 | #5,927 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,030 | 13 | #6,712 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,865 | 17 | #5,502 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,351 | 15 | #6,020 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,014 | 14 | #6,292 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,665 | 15 | #5,942 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,992 | 19 | #5,026 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,631 | 21 | #4,590 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,334 | 17 | #5,442 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,389 | 26 | #3,968 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,150 | 19 | #5,002 |
| 2009 | 115 | #1,858 | 25 | #4,138 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,876 | 32 | #3,474 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,664 | 35 | #3,234 |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,478 | 54 | #2,343 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,530 | 39 | #2,793 |
| 2004 | 177 | #1,237 | 37 | #2,830 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,380 | 50 | #2,198 |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,262 | 36 | #2,670 |
| 2001 | 150 | #1,293 | 31 | #2,974 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,163 | 47 | #2,166 |
| 1999 | 203 | #1,009 | 54 | #1,845 |
| 1998 | 227 | #921 | 50 | #1,950 |
| 1997 | 190 | #1,016 | 59 | #1,688 |
| 1996 | 184 | #1,017 | 51 | #1,809 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,026 | 59 | #1,581 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,088 | 48 | #1,813 |
| 1993 | 177 | #1,041 | 59 | #1,547 |
| 1992 | 118 | #1,398 | 57 | #1,560 |
| 1991 | 139 | #1,228 | 53 | #1,604 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,558 | 70 | #1,329 |
| 1989 | 129 | #1,235 | 37 | #1,981 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,364 | 45 | #1,610 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,324 | 36 | #1,824 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,613 | 32 | #1,910 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,130 | 22 | #2,414 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,042 | 17 | #2,799 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,987 | 10 | #4,093 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,848 | 7 | #5,523 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,783 | 8 | #4,888 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,121 | 16 | #2,935 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,946 | 13 | #3,322 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,041 | 15 | #2,901 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,052 | 22 | #2,195 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,726 | 14 | #2,929 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,868 | 17 | #2,520 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,873 | 12 | #3,091 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,728 | 19 | #2,197 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,265 | 15 | #2,519 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,930 | 7 | #4,313 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,982 | 12 | #2,865 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,177 | 7 | #3,883 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,427 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,614 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,159 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,148 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,936 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,783 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,971 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,374 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,475 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,274 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,456 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,694 Americans recorded as Shae, 79% are girls and 21% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shae, and how old are they?
7,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,694 Americans ever recorded as Shae. The median Shae alive today is 27 years old; half are between 16 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 7,128 people named Shae (5,692 women and girls, 1,436 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 709 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,580 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shae born?
The states with the most babies named Shae are Pennsylvania, California and New York, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #998 | 0.5× |
| California | 8 | #2,459 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,636 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,220 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,419 | 0.4× |
Where Shae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shae is most over-represented in Utah: since 1951 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 24,687 babies since 1880, Shae is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 104 of their 399 babies (26%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shae and names like it
- Compare Shae and ShayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShae peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shae since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Shae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.