# Shayne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shayne/  
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 | 13,701 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,741 / 2,960 (22% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 781, 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 | 44 | 3,597 |
| 2012 | 38 | 4,037 |
| 2013 | 46 | 3,453 |
| 2014 | 48 | 3,364 |
| 2015 | 40 | 3,835 |
| 2016 | 35 | 4,232 |
| 2017 | 35 | 4,211 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,490 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,888 |
| 2020 | 26 | 4,985 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10,202 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7,587 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,425 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,543 |
| 2025 | 13 | 8,276 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 112 | 1,466 |
| 2012 | 104 | 1,539 |
| 2013 | 81 | 1,792 |
| 2014 | 78 | 1,880 |
| 2015 | 89 | 1,737 |
| 2016 | 81 | 1,858 |
| 2017 | 50 | 2,562 |
| 2018 | 62 | 2,228 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,729 |
| 2020 | 34 | 3,333 |
| 2021 | 36 | 3,285 |
| 2022 | 30 | 3,759 |
| 2023 | 36 | 3,334 |
| 2024 | 27 | 4,060 |
| 2025 | 32 | 3,574 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,701 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4,157 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 944 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Shayne

- Shayne Ward, English singer
- Shayne Reese, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Shayne Whittington, American basketball player and coach (born 1991)
- Shayne Corson, Canadian hockey player
- Shayne Topp, American actor born 1991
- Shayne Lamas, American actress
- Shayne Toporowski, Canadian ice hockey player

## 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.