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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shy

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#12,988

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

7

All-time births

427

2% of them in 2025

More common than

82%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1997
32 births
Best rank
#3,610
in 1997
First recorded
1973
#7,323 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2001
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
39 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199732#3,610Peak
  2. 200021#5,468
  3. 200118#6,276
  4. 199517#5,652
  5. 199416#5,951

Rank over time

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

Best rank #3,610 in 1997 · peak births 32 in 1997

Boys and girls

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

● 11% boys■ 89% girls

51 boys · 427 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 Shy has ranked, decade by decade

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