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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shaw

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#4,836

down −532 places

2025 births

21

down −4 births

All-time births

1,336

2% of them in 2025

More common than

91%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2020
39 births
Best rank
#1,742
in 1974
First recorded
1914
#3,215 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
72 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202039#3,022Peak
  2. 201236#3,163
  3. 202234#3,453
  4. 201633#3,425
  5. 202132#3,567

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,742 in 1974 · peak births 39 in 2020

Boys and girls

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

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

1,336 boys · 62 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 Shaw has ranked, decade by decade

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