How Many People Are Named Shaye?
people named Shaye are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 122,635 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,862 babies named Shaye in Social Security records from 1951 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
152 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Feminine variant of SHEA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shaye in English. Counting Shaye and these spellings together, about 10,307 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Shaye, 76.6% were girls and 23.4% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Shaye fell from 75.2% in the 1970s to 55.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shaye alive today is about 28 years old, and 62% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 35 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shaye first appears in the records in 1951 and was given most often in 1998, to 152 babies. In 2025, 19 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shaye has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,359, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #10,786. Among boys, its best rank was #2,675, in 1989.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #10,786 | #8,141 |
| Best rank | #1,359 (1998) | #2,675 (1989) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,976 in the 1990s | #3,567 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shaye alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shaye were born in New York than in any other state: about 164 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shaye was given 4.5 times as often in New York, 1.9 times in California and 1.2 times in Texas.
Look up another name
⊙ We don't save the names you search.