Shae

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Shae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Shae: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #303 in 2010, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#303highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1287
1998	#607
1999	#900
2000	#1250
2001	#1870
2002	#1530
2003	#1843
2004	#1312
2005	#1690
2006	#1585
2007	#1502
2008	#2487
2009	#1526
2010	#2104
2011	#4764
2012	#2215
2013	#2176
2014	#1798
2015	#1711
2016	#1472
2017	#2341
2018	#2187
2019	#2643
2020	#2615
2021	#2711
2022	#2673
2023	#1959
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1894 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2010
Highest recorded position: #303 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2010 (recorded 2007–2010).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Shae appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 952 births with the name.

Shae across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Shae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#515 (2000)	#1322 (2024)	29 of 29	952 (1996–2024)	66 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#607 (1998)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	407 (1996–2024)	42 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#628 (2020)	#898 (2024)	4 of 10	14 (2015–2024)	5 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#357 (2007)	#303 (2010)	#303 (2010)	3 of 4	11 (2007–2010)	5 (2010)

Shae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Shae in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	62	4 of 10	16
2000s	374	10 of 10	37
2010sbusiest	427	10 of 10	43
2020s	89	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 43 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 25, from 66 to 41.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Shae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #303 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Shae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1329	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1111	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#932	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#794	41	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#903	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#771	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#549	66	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#565	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#687	45	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#748	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#658	46	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#603	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#574	51	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#605	44	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#773	28	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#848	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#707	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#515	38	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#621	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#607	42	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#850	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1454	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #303, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 66 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Carlo · #299, 32y
Giovanni · #299, 31y
Hughie · #307, 30y
Jayson · #307, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Calem · #303, 13y
Jamey · #302, 15y
Kiefer · #302, 26y
Laith · #304, 29y

Shae was ranked #303 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Shae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Shae without appearing here.

Shae moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2176 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1798 and #4684.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Shae

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1286.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1329 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2320 and #967.
Frida Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1502 and #1656 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2487 and #1247.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1329 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2320 and #1224.

Moved the opposite way to Shae

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shae went from #1287 to #1894 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shae went from #1287 to #1894 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shae went from #621 to #1322 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shae went from #900 to #1894 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.

Moved the same way as Shae

Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Shae went from #1458 to #2320 and Brent from #898 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Shae went from #1458 to #2320 and Tor from #2020 to #3449.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Shae went from #1755 to #2711 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Shae went from #607 to #1959 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #303 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Shae

Shae at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shae across 4 official records

Shae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Shae appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Shae at a glance

Shae across 4 official records

Shae by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Shae appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Shae and the names beside it

Shae moved ahead of

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