Shayne

Where Shayne comes from

The dictionaries list Shayne as a given name — a male given name from Irish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #2,111 among boys, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1982
    Shayne Reese born
    Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
  4. 1984
    Shayne Ward born
    English singer
  5. 1990
    Peak, #484
    399 babies named Shayne — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #862.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Shayne Ward · English singer, born 1984
  • Shayne Reese · Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder, born 1982
  • Shayne Whittington · American basketball player and coach, born 1991
  • Shayne Corson · Canadian hockey player, born 1966
  • Shayne Lavery · Northern Irish association football player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.