Shaine — #12592 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,013 babies named Shaine between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shaine currently holds the #12592 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Shaine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 222 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaine performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 278 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shaine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaine in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaine 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 1,013 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.