Shaya — #1445 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,672 babies named Shaya between 1955 and 2024, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shaya currently holds the #1445 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 125 babies received it in a single year. Shaya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,004 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 652 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shaya shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,187 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaya in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaya 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 1,672 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.