first name
SHAYNE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 11,386 people named Shayne, 74.5% reported their origin as White, 8.5% as Black and 6.3% as two or more races. 76.7% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shayne peaked in 1990, when 446 babies got the name.
At least 13,701 babies have been given the name since 1943. 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.
Shayne by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,162. The largest share of babies named Shayne, 33.3%, 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 Shayne is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shayne has been most common in Hawaii (4.7×), Utah (2.7×), and Massachusetts (2.1×), and least common in North Carolina (0.21×).
7,545 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 Shayne
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shayne, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Shayne ranks #66,171 of 156,621, with 323 people. See Shayne as a last name
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