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.
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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 59,429 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 72.3% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,746Zanyla28
- #4,746Zenaya28
- #4,746Zuriel28
- #4,873Shaya27
- #4,873Abagail27
- #4,873Airabella27
- #4,873Aleisha27
- #4,999Aamirah26
- #4,999Adalaide26
- #4,999Alanny26
Tied with 125 names at #4,873; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,255 of them was named Shaya, which outranked 89.5% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,485Psalm121
- #1,485Truth121
- #1,485Tymir121
- #1,489Shaya120
- #1,489Amani120
- #1,489Benaiah120
- #1,489Coby120
- #1,498Arman119
- #1,498Pierson119
- #1,498Sulaiman119
Tied with 8 names at #1,489; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.