Shaye
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Shaye is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,562 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 83Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
2,562 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name transferred from the surname or from Irish, variant of Shay.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,562 | 1 in 130K | 2K | Shaye | 270 |
| AU Australia | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 4 | Shaye | 98 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 308K | 4 | Shaye | 60 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 268K | 1 | Shaye | 75 |
| PH Philippines | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 956K | — | Shaye | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 15 | Shaye | 42 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shaye Coganb. 1923USsinger and actor (1924-2009)
- Shaye J. D. Cohenb. 1948USAmerican rabbi and historian
- Shaye Al-Nafisahb. 1962SASaudi Arabian footballer
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)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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
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.
- Is Shaye a male or female name?
- Shaye is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Shaye?
- 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. After it come Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Shaye?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shayeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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” — ranked 6294th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.