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NAMES LIKE SHAY
Same rise and fall as Shay, around the same years.
WHERE SHAY IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Shay ranked highest in Massachusetts (#900) and lowest in Texas (#2,586). 34 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Shay name popularity
Shay has been given to 13,251 babies in the United States since 1932.
It peaked in 2021, when 409 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1,241 in 1974.
In 2025, 261 babies were named Shay (#1,862 in the country), 36% below the peak. That is up 12% from 2015.
About 62% of babies named Shay were girls and 38% were boys.
An estimated 13K people named Shay are alive in the US today, with a median age of 27.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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