girls:
51 births since 1969
#5665 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1914
#3323 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1914
#6402 (17th percentile)
The name Shaw is the #6,402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,341 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 17.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,323 (27.5% percentile) for all time with 1,290 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1969.
Shaw first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Shaw is available in 70 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 9 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 Shaw has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shaw reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #867) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Shaw ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 67.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shaw reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #963) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaw".
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