# Shaye (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shaye/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,862 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 674 / 2,188 (76% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 490, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 5,045 |
| 2012 | 23 | 5,867 |
| 2013 | 31 | 4,633 |
| 2014 | 18 | 6,946 |
| 2015 | 30 | 4,703 |
| 2016 | 22 | 5,958 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,484 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,488 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,372 |
| 2020 | 19 | 6,290 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,906 |
| 2022 | 18 | 6,675 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,997 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,321 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,790 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,655 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,467 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,753 |
| 2014 | 10 | 8,034 |
| 2015 | 14 | 6,260 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,890 |
| 2017 | 12 | 7,033 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,065 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,119 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,238 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,612 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,699 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,813 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,769 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,145 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | 2,530 |
| 2005 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2006 | 7 | 2,781 |
| 2007 | 8 | 2,627 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22 | 1,171 |
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Shaye

- Shaye J. D. Cohen, American rabbi and historian

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.