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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shain

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#11,780

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

6

All-time births

1,215

0% of them in 2025

More common than

90%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1985
40 births
Best rank
#1,510
in 1977
First recorded
1963
#3,603 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
58 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198540#1,609Peak
  2. 197738#1,510
  3. 197836#1,594
  4. 198036#1,648
  5. 198635#1,788

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,510 in 1977 · peak births 40 in 1985

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

1,215 boys · 26 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shain has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.