Shae

Where Shae comes from

Shae hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #3,284 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Shae D'Lyn born
    American actress
  3. 1991
    Shae Kelley born
    American basketball player
  4. 1998
    Peak, #921
    227 babies named Shae — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,136.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shae D'Lyn · American actress, born 1963
  • Shae Kelley · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Shae Marks · American actress and model, born 1972
  • Shae Jones · American singer-songwriter, born 1978
  • Shae · Indonesian singer, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.