Shaw

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 95.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
#1,692
1974 · 28 births
Debut · boys
1914
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,336
since 1914

Shaw over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Shaw has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #1,692, 1974boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#4,70721
2024#15,2935#4,20025
2023—#4,11226
2022—#3,41234
2021—#3,49732
2020—#2,98039
2019#15,5395#3,57131
2018—#3,52431
2017—#3,78128
2016#14,3316#3,35833
2015#16,4195#3,51331
2014#10,9559#4,01425
2013—#3,58229
2012—#3,11536
2011—#3,99425
2010—#5,74115
2009—#5,10218
2008—#4,90119
2007—#4,01125
2006—#3,38431
2005#14,5026#5,57814
2004—#5,24615
2003—#5,55813
2002—#3,67023
2001—#3,41025
2000—#3,64022
1999—#4,76214
1998—#3,59720
1997—#3,06424
1996—#3,67818
1995—#3,43219
1994—#3,59618
1993—#3,50118
1992—#2,90923
1991—#4,23113
1990—#3,16619
1989—#3,09419
1988—#3,35015
1987—#2,40023
1986—#2,22625
1985—#2,35722
1984—#4,2159
1983—#2,49319
1982—#2,59618
1981—#2,49619
1980—#3,83810
1979—#2,46519
1978—#2,06823
1977—#3,20312
1976—#2,41718
1975—#2,00123
1974#8,7755#1,69228
1973#8,4235#2,21618
1972—#2,02020
1971#8,3245#2,36616
1970—#2,12518
1969#7,4715#2,41513
1968—#2,73510
1967—#2,9858
1966—#2,9868
1965—#2,9828
1964—#3,6016
1963—#4,0485
1962—#4,0335
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1960—#3,0778
1959—#3,6196
1958—#3,9445
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Shaw! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1915–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Shaw
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 507 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #4,707)
  • 1,727 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #4,707)
  • 1,194 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
60 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1974 at #1,692 (28 births)
  • Births halved by 1977, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 44,258
  • Highest: 1 in 44,258 boys born in 2020 were named Shaw (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,692 in 1974, was only 1 in 56,155 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 21.3% of all boys named Shaw (284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#2,915 (1914)#2,915
1920s12#3,532 (1922)#3,909
1930s5#3,480 (1939)#3,480
1940s0——
1950s16#3,619 (1959)#3,797
1960s71#2,415 (1969)#3,207
1970s195#1,692 (1974)#2,257
1980s179#2,226 (1986)#2,907
1990s186#2,909 (1992)#3,594
2000s205#3,384 (2006)#4,450
2010s284#3,115 (2012)#3,819
2020s177#2,980 (2020)#3,818

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Shaw in 1974

girls
#8,775
5 births · 1 in 293,507 girls
boys
#1,692
28 births · 1 in 56,155 boys

Top girls' names in 1974

  1. #1Jennifer63,107
  2. #2Amy29,566
  3. #3Michelle25,826
  4. #4Heather23,179
  5. #5Angela22,803
  6. #6Kimberly22,427
  7. #7Melissa22,166
  8. #8Lisa19,778
  9. #9Stephanie16,984
  10. #10Rebecca15,163
  11. #8,775Shaw5

Top boys' names in 1974

  1. #1Michael67,534
  2. #2Jason54,756
  3. #3Christopher48,585
  4. #4David41,786
  5. #5James41,334
  6. #6John37,612
  7. #7Robert37,005
  8. #8Brian34,449
  9. #9Matthew27,194
  10. #10William26,980
  11. #1,692Shaw28
More about 1974

girls

1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 293,507 of them was named Shaw, which outranked 14.4% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shaw
  1. #7,680Zorica6
  2. #7,680Zully6
  3. #7,680Zuri6
  4. #8,775Shaw5
  5. #8,775Aaronette5
  6. #8,775Abbigail5
  7. #8,775Abeni5

Tied with 1,472 names at #8,775; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,440Nakia#6,666 → #226
  2. ↑ 5,329Nikia#6,080 → #751
  3. ↑ 1,994Luciana#2,914 → #920
  4. ↑ 1,556Cortney#2,349 → #793
  5. ↑ 1,213Nia#1,885 → #672
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,251Contina#962 → #2,213
  2. ↓ 396Pam#990 → #1,386
  3. ↓ 376Tracee#536 → #912
  4. ↓ 364Cher#760 → #1,124
  5. ↓ 314Richard#904 → #1,218

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 56,155 of them was named Shaw, which outranked 71.8% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shaw
  1. #1,659Sheridan29
  2. #1,659Skip29
  3. #1,659Zeke29
  4. #1,692Shaw28
  5. #1,692Alonza28
  6. #1,692Antonino28
  7. #1,692Arik28
  8. #1,747Abdullah27
  9. #1,747Agapito27
  10. #1,747Alva27

Tied with 54 names at #1,692; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,544Rashad#4,505 → #961
  2. ↑ 844Telly#1,312 → #468
  3. ↑ 398Jabari#1,312 → #914
  4. ↑ 356Ahmad#1,123 → #767
  5. ↑ 356Toma#1,238 → #882
Fallers
  1. ↓ 383Parrish#987 → #1,370
  2. ↓ 378Fredric#957 → #1,335
  3. ↓ 346Jory#753 → #1,099
  4. ↓ 301Vidal#834 → #1,135
  5. ↓ 277Pat#847 → #1,124

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974 →