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Shay
Rank in 2024
#1,699
Born in 2024
98
Peak year
1991 · #833
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:208 in 2024 (#1,153)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 98 boys were named Shay, about 1 in every 17,503.
- It peaked in 1991 with 154 babies, ranked #833.
- It first shows up in the records in 1932.
- 4,947 boys have been named Shay since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Shay per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 84 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 920 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,631 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,333 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 974 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Variant of Shea, from Irish Ó Séaghdha.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A diminutive of the male given name Seamus.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Shay, CC BY-SA 4.0.