Shay
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#1,227
down −68 places
2025 births
184
down −24 births
All-time births
8,227
2% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2022
- 301 births
- Best rank
- #894
- in 1971
- First recorded
- 1953
- #4,962 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2000
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 73 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 2022301#914Peak
- 2021300#903
- 2020277#934
- 2023255#1,000
- 2024208#1,159
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #894 in 1971 · peak births 301 in 2022
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 38% boys■ 62% girls
5,024 boys · 8,227 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 Shay has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.