Shire
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#16,915
up +417 places
2025 births
5
unchanged births
All-time births
37
14% of them in 2025
More common than
47%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1992
- 6 births
- Best rank
- #7,660
- in 1964
- First recorded
- 1964
- #7,660 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2007
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 7 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19926#13,127Peak
- 20186#15,398
- 19645#7,660
- 20035#18,012
- 20235#17,268
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #7,660 in 1964 · peak births 6 in 1992
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 14% boys■ 86% girls
6 boys · 37 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 Shire has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.