first name
SHANE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 167,539 people named Shane, 83.3% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as two or more races and 4.6% as Black. 98.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shane peaked in 1973, when 5,931 babies got the name.
At least 196,166 babies have been given the name since 1933. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Shane by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #117. The largest share of babies named Shane, 36.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Shane is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shane has been most common in Hawaii (2.9×), Wyoming (2.6×), and Montana (2.6×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.3×).
192,339 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Shane
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shane, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Shane ranks #5,101 of 156,621, with 6,661 people. See Shane as a last name
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