Shayne
Shayne is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 32 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,274 among girls’ names and #3,573 among boys’, #6,080 among all names counting both); 13,701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,900 Americans named Shayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shayne is “a male given name from Irish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shayne?
#3,573 among boys’ names, 2025
Shayne fell from #1,737 in 2015 to #3,573 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 46.4 to 18.7 per million.
446 babies in 1990, the peak
Shayne peaked in 1990, when 446 babies were given it (399 boys, #483 among boys’ names). The 45 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,274 | 32 | #3,573 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,539 | 27 | #4,057 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,420 | 36 | #3,332 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,582 | 30 | #3,757 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,197 | 36 | #3,283 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,983 | 34 | #3,331 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,887 | 47 | #2,728 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,486 | 62 | #2,227 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,210 | 50 | #2,561 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,231 | 81 | #1,858 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,834 | 89 | #1,737 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,362 | 78 | #1,879 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,451 | 81 | #1,791 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,036 | 104 | #1,539 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,596 | 112 | #1,466 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,535 | 141 | #1,249 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,285 | 114 | #1,467 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,266 | 152 | #1,178 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,472 | 172 | #1,076 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,665 | 166 | #1,076 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,852 | 178 | #978 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,255 | 180 | #941 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,792 | 188 | #895 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,573 | 192 | #864 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,801 | 208 | #806 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,870 | 239 | #723 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,788 | 216 | #744 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,235 | 233 | #714 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,252 | 252 | #651 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,222 | 294 | #606 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,336 | 266 | #635 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,039 | 326 | #569 |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,757 | 292 | #606 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,337 | 340 | #554 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,688 | 351 | #541 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,558 | 399 | #483 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,030 | 253 | #622 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,780 | 282 | #549 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,312 | 233 | #595 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,258 | 196 | #641 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,642 | 157 | #706 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,051 | 113 | #826 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,895 | 106 | #853 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,756 | 131 | #772 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,914 | 123 | #789 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,478 | 151 | #709 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,060 | 145 | #721 |
| 1978 | 27 | #3,000 | 177 | #628 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,415 | 183 | #620 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,961 | 174 | #624 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,981 | 183 | #599 |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,367 | 224 | #534 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,385 | 236 | #507 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,403 | 198 | #570 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,904 | 208 | #563 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,197 | 224 | #543 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,919 | 166 | #609 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,877 | 160 | #601 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,482 | 110 | #710 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,086 | 112 | #702 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,332 | 111 | #710 |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,000 | 98 | #770 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,764 | 86 | #820 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,566 | 79 | #854 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,735 | 112 | #728 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,804 | 46 | #1,163 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,965 | 32 | #1,408 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,734 | 29 | #1,475 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,906 | 32 | #1,407 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,156 | 12 | #2,478 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,271 | 10 | #2,729 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,063 | 17 | #1,945 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,352 | 14 | #2,171 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,354 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,677 | 7 | #3,314 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,259 | 13 | #2,188 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,148 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,164 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,349 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,621 | under 5 |
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 Shayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,701 Americans recorded as Shayne, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shayne, and how old are they?
12,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 13,701 Americans ever recorded as Shayne. The median Shayne alive today is 34 years old; half are between 24 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 11,386 people named Shayne (2,652 women and girls, 8,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 693 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Shayne born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Shayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shayne is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1943 it was given 1.9 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 Shayne 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 211,881 babies since 1880, Shayne is the second most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 484 babies (9.3%), 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 Shayne
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 Shayne and names like it
- Compare Shayne and ShaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShayne peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shayne since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Shayne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shayne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shayne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.