Shaya
Shaya is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 135 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,054 among girls’ names and #1,375 among boys’, #2,458 among all names counting both); 2,850 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Shaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaya?
#1,375 among boys’ names, 2025
Shaya rose from #2,426 in 2015 to #1,375 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.7 to 79.0 per million.
171 babies in 2025, the peak
Shaya peaked in 2025, when 171 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,375 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 127 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,054 | 135 | #1,375 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,881 | 127 | #1,436 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,980 | 120 | #1,496 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,029 | 94 | #1,769 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,491 | 106 | #1,611 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,433 | 82 | #1,826 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,289 | 112 | #1,522 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,442 | 83 | #1,832 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,784 | 69 | #2,047 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,630 | 82 | #1,841 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,206 | 53 | #2,426 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,882 | 50 | #2,508 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,805 | 49 | #2,517 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,560 | 51 | #2,479 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,697 | 53 | #2,399 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,352 | 50 | #2,503 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,683 | 43 | #2,838 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,119 | 30 | #3,635 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,355 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,356 | 31 | #3,439 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,574 | 29 | #3,436 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,521 | 29 | #3,354 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,643 | 28 | #3,349 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,344 | 24 | #3,645 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,976 | 25 | #3,490 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,901 | 16 | #4,748 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,180 | 16 | #4,498 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,028 | 17 | #4,168 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,438 | 12 | #5,223 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,854 | 10 | #5,898 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,194 | 9 | #6,328 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,940 | 11 | #5,392 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,202 | 15 | #4,180 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,674 | 5 | #9,591 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,360 | 16 | #3,784 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,411 | 17 | #3,574 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,101 | 12 | #4,478 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,559 | 9 | #5,151 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,267 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,923 | 9 | #4,779 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,983 | 5 | #7,416 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,318 | 7 | #5,484 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,043 | 6 | #6,102 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,876 | 5 | #7,211 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,527 | 5 | #7,113 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,976 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,360 | 7 | #5,277 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,388 | 6 | #5,660 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,788 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,037 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,353 | |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,696 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,530 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,372 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,316 |
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 Shaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,850 Americans recorded as Shaya, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaya, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,850 Americans ever recorded as Shaya. The median Shaya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,960 people named Shaya (796 women and girls, 1,164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 375 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 825 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Shaya born?
The states with the most babies named Shaya are New York, New Jersey and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 91 | #216 | 7.5× |
| New Jersey | 30 | #298 | 2.3× |
| California | 15 | #2,757 | 0.7× |
Where Shaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaya is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 7.5 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 boys’ 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 Shaya 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,630 babies since 1880, Shaya is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 171 of their 476 babies (36%), 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 Shaya
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 Shaya and names like it
- Compare Shaya and ShaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShaya peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.