Shaya
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #1,370 for boys in 2025, 135 births
Given to boys 63.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,809since 1955
Shaya 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #1,370 | 135 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | #1,432 | 127 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,489 | 120 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,760 | 94 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | #1,606 | 106 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #1,515 | 112 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,032 | 69 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #1,828 | 82 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #2,492 | 50 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #2,467 | 50 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #3,410 | 25 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shaya! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shaya is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#418 · 1 in 2,748
- California#1,859 · 1 in 28,794
Best ever in a state: #212 in New York, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #418 | 38 | 1 in 2,748 |
| California | #1,859 | 8 | 1 in 28,794 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shaya
- 62 spots since 2024 (#1,432 → #1,370)
- 445 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,370)
- 1,042 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #1,370)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2025 at #1,370 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,652 boys born in 2025 were named Shaya (0.01%)
- 36.7% of all boys named Shaya (664) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 19 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,899 |
| 1980s | 58 | #4,271 (1989) | #5,393 |
| 1990s | 128 | #3,467 (1990) | #4,945 |
| 2000s | 283 | #2,800 (2009) | #3,492 |
| 2010s | 652 | #1,515 (2019) | #2,189 |
| 2020s | 664 | #1,370 (2025) | #1,579 |
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.
Shaya in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 73,294 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 71.7% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,358Zaylin25
- #5,358Zori25
- #5,358Zoriah25
- #5,543Shaya24
- #5,543Adair24
- #5,543Adalin24
- #5,543Adama24
- #5,728Aasiyah23
- #5,728Abigal23
- #5,728Addi23
Tied with 184 names at #5,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 35,835 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 83.5% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,346Wynn54
- #2,346Yousuf54
- #2,346Ziyon54
- #2,376Shaya53
- #2,376Aariz53
- #2,376Arik53
- #2,376Bastian53
- #2,403Abdallah52
- #2,403Ahron52
- #2,403Alston52
Tied with 26 names at #2,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.