Shale
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
56
peak year 1999
More common than
53%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1999
- 9 births
- Best rank
- #3,914
- in 1972
- First recorded
- 1972
- #3,914 that year
- Last recorded
- 2003
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1994
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 9 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19999#7,010Peak
- 19728#3,914
- 19977#7,979
- 19916#8,084
- 19986#9,459
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3,914 in 1972 · peak births 9 in 1999
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 73% boys■ 27% girls
56 boys · 21 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 Shale has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.