How Many People Are Named Shayne?
people named Shayne are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 26,490 people in the US has this name
Based on 13,701 babies named Shayne in Social Security records from 1943 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
446 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHANE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shayne in English. Counting Shayne and these spellings together, about 196,479 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Shayne, 21.9% were girls and 78.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Shayne fell from 51.5% in the 1950s to 32.1% in the 2020s. It was lowest in the 1980s, at 15.4%.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shayne alive today is about 35 years old, and 54% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 48 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shayne first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1990, to 446 babies. In 2025, 45 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shayne has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #483, in 1990. In 2025 it ranked #3,573. Among girls, its best rank was #1,367, in 1974.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,573 | #8,274 |
| Best rank | #483 (1990) | #1,367 (1974) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #606 in the 1990s | #2,769 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shayne alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shayne were born in California than in any other state: about 1,340 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shayne was given 4.2 times as often in Hawaii, 2.3 times in Massachusetts and 2.2 times in Utah.
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