Shain
#11,776 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shain has been given to 1,241 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #11,776 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Shain, 2025
1 in 553,000
Shain over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shain?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,776
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shain sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shains were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shain was born before 1988 — so the typical Shain is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 24.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,215
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (300).
Is Shain rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +27
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,348
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.0%
- Peak was 1985 (40)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shain
Shain is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 36.3% against Shain's 0.10%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shain is used
Across 1910–2025, Shain was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 683,118 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shain has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shain around the world
Where Shain ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–2008#3,687in 2008
- France1997–2025#3,871in 2025
- South Australia1970–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shain by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shain
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shain
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.