girls:
3.6k births since 1941
#2885 (50th percentile)
boys:
191.7k births since 1933
#188 (96th percentile)
overall:
195.2k births since 1933
#398 (95th percentile)
The name Shane is the #398 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 195,233 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 94.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #188 (95.9% percentile) for all time with 191,658 births since 1933. For girls, it ranks #2,885 (49.5% percentile) for all time with 3,575 births since 1941.
Shane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for boys and 1941 for girls). Birth data for Shane is available in 89 out of the 91 years between 1933 and 2023 (89 years for boys and 79 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shane has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shane reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 91.8% percentile (ranked #55) with 3,127 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3,539 births per million (ranked 91.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shane ranks #484 for boys (46.9% percentile) with 287 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shane reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 28.3% percentile (ranked #531) with 142 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 142 births per million (ranked 28.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shane ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shane".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shane is pronounced as shayn, which has 1 syllables.
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