Shae
#2,051 for girls in 2025, 92 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 78.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 227 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,065since 1951
Shae over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,051 | 92 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #1,724 | 119 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #1,974 | 99 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #1,760 | 116 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #2,011 | 95 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #2,338 | 78 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #1,655 | 129 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #1,982 | 100 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #1,624 | 132 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #2,369 | 78 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #1,848 | 115 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #1,865 | 114 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #1,473 | 150 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #1,525 | 135 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #1,236 | 177 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #1,375 | 146 | #2,180 | 50 |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 157 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | #1,291 | 150 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #1,162 | 173 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #1,010 | 203 | #1,824 | 54 |
| 1998 | #921 | 227 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #1,013 | 190 | #1,672 | 59 |
| 1996 | #1,015 | 184 | #1,785 | 51 |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 | #1,577 | 59 |
| 1994 | #1,083 | 166 | #1,795 | 48 |
| 1993 | #1,041 | 177 | #1,539 | 59 |
| 1992 | #1,392 | 118 | #1,546 | 57 |
| 1991 | #1,229 | 139 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #1,557 | 98 | #1,326 | 70 |
| 1989 | #1,234 | 129 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #1,354 | 105 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #1,318 | 104 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #1,602 | 74 | #1,873 | 32 |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #1,767 | 63 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 47 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #2,026 | 47 | #2,131 | 22 |
| 1976 | #1,714 | 56 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #1,854 | 49 | #2,450 | 17 |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #1,714 | 52 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | #2,222 | 34 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #1,906 | 45 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #1,952 | 43 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shae! It came in at #3,284, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shae
- 99 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,051)
- 17 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #2,051)
- 396 spots since 2015 (#1,655 → #2,051)
- Biggest jump: 92 spots in 1998 (#1,013 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 89 spots in 1999 (#921 → #1,010)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1998 at #921 (227 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1998
- Highest: 1 in 7,784 girls born in 1998 were named Shae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,470 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 27.7% of all girls named Shae (1,680) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23 | #3,284 (1951) | #4,626 |
| 1960s | 104 | #3,102 (1969) | #4,233 |
| 1970s | 474 | #1,714 (1976) | #1,917 |
| 1980s | 735 | #1,234 (1989) | #1,727 |
| 1990s | 1,680 | #921 (1998) | #1,128 |
| 2000s | 1,451 | #1,162 (2000) | #1,469 |
| 2010s | 993 | #1,624 (2013) | #2,028 |
| 2020s | 605 | #1,724 (2023) | #1,949 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shae in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 9,162 of them was named Shae, which outranked 93.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,008Leigh191
- #1,008Maci191
- #1,008Yajaira191
- #1,013Shae190
- #1,013Layla190
- #1,013Lilia190
- #1,013Lina190
- #1,019Ashli189
- #1,019Betty189
- #1,019Tayla189
Tied with 5 names at #1,013; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 31,952 of them was named Shae, which outranked 84.5% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,657Terron60
- #1,657Treston60
- #1,657Trinity60
- #1,672Shae59
- #1,672Alexi59
- #1,672Amar59
- #1,672Dayshawn59
- #1,693Archie58
- #1,693Brogan58
- #1,693Damani58
Tied with 20 names at #1,672; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.