Shine — #3366 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shine

The Social Security Administration has registered 255 babies named Shine between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shine currently holds the #3366 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 46 babies received it in a single year. Shine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 252 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shine performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shine shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shine in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shine 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 255 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.