Shae — #2148 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shae

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,972 babies named Shae between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shae currently holds the #2148 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 227 babies received it in a single year. Shae is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,617 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shae performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,680 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shae shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 523 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Shae in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shae 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 5,972 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.