Shaye — #15543 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaye

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,179 babies named Shaye between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaye currently holds the #15543 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 128 babies received it in a single year. Shaye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 664 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaye performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 734 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shaye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 147 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaye in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaye 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 2,179 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.