Shye
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shye has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 2007, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.
Babies named Shye, 2009
1 in 764,000
Shye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shye over time
In 2021, Shye 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 Shye?
Shye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,609 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shye was born before 2004 — so the typical Shye is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 75.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Shye 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 2007 (10)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shye
Shye is not the most common spelling — Sue is, with 37.4% against Shye's 0.02%.
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.
Shye around the world
Where Shye 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 & Wales2007–2014#5,691in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.