Shaya

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Shaya: Recorded every year since 1998, it reached #1,369 in 2019, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#1369highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2003	#2727
2004	#3197
2005	#2247
2006	#1862
2007	#2410
2008	#2292
2009	#2019
2010	#1653
2011	#2150
2012	#1991
2013	#2176
2014	#1882
2015	#3615
2016	#2547
2017	#2090
2018	#3985
2019	#2170
2020	#2843
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#2346

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 20 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #1369 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Shaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 24 ranked years and 215 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 1998.

Shaya across 2 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.

Shaya'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	#2901 (1998)	#1369 (2019)	#2443 (2024)	20 of 27	147 (1998–2024)	18 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#1653 (2010)	#2346 (2023)	24 of 25	215 (1999–2023)	17 (2010)

Shaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Shaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	70	9 of 10	8
2010sbusiest	116	10 of 10	12
2020s	26	4 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

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

Shaya appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1369 in England and Wales in 2019.

Shaya'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	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,369, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

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.

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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Shay · #39, 39y
Shayaan · #598, 26y
Shayan · #458, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Hardy · #1369, 22y
Bethel · #1371, 24y
Constantinos · #1367, 23y
Nima · #1367, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Bethel · #1371, 24y
Constantinos · #1367, 23y
Hera · #1371, 21y
Kalam · #1367, 11y

Shaya 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 Shaya without appearing here.

Shaya moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.
Lorraine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.
Shea Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Shaya

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #1398.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1436.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #1224.
Rune Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #2125 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #1609.

Moved the opposite way to Shaya

Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Shaya went from #1653 to #2346 while Rory went from #5707 to #1469.
Martine Compare
Between 1999 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Shaya went from #3900 to #2150 while Martine went from #752 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Shaya

Carol Compare
Between 1999 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Shaya went from #3900 to #5581 and Carol from #1805 to #3519.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Shaya went from #3998 to #2346 and Harper from #3262 to #22.
Karin Compare
Between 1999 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Shaya went from #3900 to #5581 and Karin from #1557 to #3192.
Kelly Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Shaya went from #2220 to #3112 and Kelly from #1467 to #3523.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1369 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Shaya

Shaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shaya across 2 official records

Shaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Shaya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Shaya and the names beside it

Shaya moved ahead of

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Shaya at a glance

Shaya across 2 official records

Shaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Shaya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Shaya and the names beside it

Shaya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Shaya

Moved the opposite way to Shaya

Moved the same way as Shaya