Shey
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shey has been given to 281 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.
Babies named Shey, 2021
1 in 484,000
Shey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shey over time
In 2021, Shey went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shey?
Shey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shey was born before 1996 — so the typical Shey is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 146
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Shey 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1991 (14)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shey
Shey is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 29.5% against Shey's 0.04%.
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.
Shey around the world
Where Shey 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 & Wales2001–2012#3,987in 2012
- South Australia1978–1998#534in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.