Shaye
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Shaye by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Shaye. In the US, 21 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 128 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shaye
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shaye. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Shanegod is gracious; anglicized form of Seán927 in the US (2017)
- Shayhawk-like or gift; a form of Séaghdha73 in England and Wales (2025)
- ShayneGod is gracious; a modern spelling of Shane85 in the US (2017)
- Shayagift from god; a form of Shaya or Isaiah13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shadeshadow; shade; darkness20 in the US (2017)
- Shae26 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Shaye
Names that are said the same way as Shaye, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Shaye
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