Shai — #1086 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shai

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,254 babies named Shai between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shai currently holds the #1086 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 224 babies received it in a single year. Shai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,793 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shai performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 962 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 295 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shai in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shai 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 2,254 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.