Shayne
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
Given to boys 78.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 399 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,741since 1950
Shayne over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #7,885 | 13 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #2,532 | 50 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #1,845 | 81 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #1,729 | 89 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | #1,873 | 78 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | #1,782 | 81 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 | #1,535 | 104 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 | #1,459 | 112 |
| 2010 | #2,514 | 73 | #1,245 | 141 |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | #1,459 | 114 |
| 2008 | #2,253 | 87 | #1,175 | 152 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 | #1,076 | 172 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | #1,073 | 166 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 | #976 | 178 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 | #939 | 180 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | #893 | 188 |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 | #862 | 192 |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 | #805 | 208 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 | #724 | 239 |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | #746 | 216 |
| 1998 | #2,221 | 64 | #714 | 233 |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 | #650 | 252 |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | #605 | 294 |
| 1995 | #2,309 | 57 | #635 | 266 |
| 1994 | #2,026 | 69 | #567 | 326 |
| 1993 | #1,753 | 84 | #607 | 292 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | #554 | 340 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #541 | 351 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 | #484 | 399 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 | #623 | 253 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #549 | 282 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #593 | 233 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 | #640 | 196 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #702 | 157 |
| 1984 | #2,992 | 29 | #823 | 113 |
| 1983 | #2,853 | 30 | #848 | 106 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | #766 | 131 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 | #784 | 123 |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | #708 | 151 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 | #718 | 145 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | #626 | 177 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 | #620 | 183 |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 | #621 | 174 |
| 1975 | #1,963 | 45 | #596 | 183 |
| 1974 | #1,364 | 76 | #533 | 224 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 | #507 | 236 |
| 1972 | #1,394 | 71 | #569 | 198 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 | #562 | 208 |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 | #541 | 224 |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 | #609 | 166 |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | #600 | 160 |
| 1967 | #2,432 | 25 | #705 | 110 |
| 1966 | #2,058 | 32 | #698 | 112 |
| 1965 | #2,293 | 27 | #705 | 111 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | #768 | 98 |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 | #816 | 86 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | #850 | 79 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 | #726 | 112 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | #1,152 | 46 |
| 1959 | #2,869 | 17 | #1,387 | 32 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 | #1,446 | 29 |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 | #1,388 | 32 |
| 1956 | #3,048 | 15 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,027 | 27 | #1,887 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | #2,099 | 14 |
| 1952 | #3,201 | 12 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #2,111 | 13 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Shayne! It came in at #2,111, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 473 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #3,513)
- 239 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #3,513)
- 1,784 spots since 2015 (#1,729 → #3,513)
- Biggest jump: 426 spots in 1961 (#1,152 → #726)
- Biggest drop: 124 spots in 1962 (#726 → #850)
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1990 at #484 (399 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 45 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1961–2005
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,148
- Highest: 1 in 5,148 boys born in 1990 were named Shayne (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 27.6% of all boys named Shayne (2,969) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1957
- Mostly girls until 1956, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 166 | #1,387 (1959) | #2,034 |
| 1960s | 1,080 | #600 (1968) | #763 |
| 1970s | 1,952 | #507 (1973) | #589 |
| 1980s | 1,745 | #549 (1988) | #704 |
| 1990s | 2,969 | #484 (1990) | #610 |
| 2000s | 1,789 | #724 (2000) | #998 |
| 2010s | 845 | #1,245 (2010) | #1,890 |
| 2020s | 195 | #3,242 (2021) | #3,500 |
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.
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