Shaye

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʃeaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shaye is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 130K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 83K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,562 people, 2020

Sources
270 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shaye counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Shaye is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,5621 in 130K2KShaye270
AU Australia≈630 est.≈1 in 41K4Shaye98
ID Indonesia≈260 est.≈1 in 1M—Shaye5
GB United Kingdom≈180 est.≈1 in 362K4Shaye60
CA Canada≈140 est.≈1 in 278K1Shaye75
NZ New Zealand≈59 est.≈1 in 83K15Shaye42

2,562 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shaye is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Shayê, Shayé

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Kingdom

    Also written Shayè

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Shayé

  • Amharic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written ሻዬ, ሻየ

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Shaye Shkarovsky, b. 1891Shaye Faygenboym, b. 1900Shaye Cogan, b. 1923Shaye J. D. Cohen, b. 1948Shaye Al-Nafisah, b. 1962Shaye Anderson, b. 1975Shaye Cohn, b. 1982Shaye Boddington, b. 1986Shaye Ali Sharahili, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Shaye,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Shaye
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#6,294
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020515#6,294
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200530—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200425—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199723—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199623—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200818—
NZ New ZealandDIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present)198515—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201314—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200714—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199914—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200113—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shaye mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Shaye?
In the etymology graph, Shae and Lashay are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Shaye?
A machine transcription gives /ʃeaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
Is Shaye a male or female name?
Shaye is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Shaye have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Shaye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaye.
How common is the name Shaye?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,562 people named Shaye in 2020, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shaye”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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