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Shyheim vs Shyra

American parents have registered 974 Shyheims since 1880, against 857 Shyras. Shyheim is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyheim against Shyra, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyheim Shyra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Shyra for 36 years and Shyheim for 23 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Shyheim Shyra
Total US births 974857
Most in one year 16847
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 950840
Median age today 2731
Peak year 19941994
Best rank 817th boys2,627th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19941962
Girls / boys 0 / 974857 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shyras alive today are over 31; half the Shyheims are over 27. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Shyheim Shyra
England and Wales 3017
France 155

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shyheim and Shyra.