Shayne
About 13,701 American babies have been named Shayne since 1943, most of them around 1990. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,513th. About 13,000 Shaynes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shayne boys named Shayne
Girls and boys called Shayne
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Shayne crossed from girls to boys in 1957, and has stayed there for 69 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 92% boys, and in 2025 it was 71%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 73 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,701
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 484th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,513th
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 2,960 / 10,741
How old the living Shaynes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,701 babies given the name since 1943, about 13,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 330 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Shaynes
- Shayne Ward (born 1984)English singer
- Shayne Reese (born 1982)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Shayne Whittington (born 1991)American basketball player and coach
- Shayne Corson (born 1966)Canadian hockey player
People named Shayne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shayne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shayne is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.7×), Utah (2.7×), Massachusetts (2.1×), Florida (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Shayne peaked:
Shayne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Shayne | 756 | 245th |
| New Zealand boys | Shayne | 296 | 76th |
| France boys | Shayne | 165 | 1,819th |
| Ireland boys | Shayne | 148 | 149th |
| Scotland boys | Shayne | 65 | 202nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Shayne | 44 | 163rd |
| England and Wales girls | Shayne | 25 | 2,701st |
| France girls | Shayne | 5 | 4,692nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Shayne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.