Shain
Shain is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198540 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 1,235people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,209 boys have been named Shain in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 25%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 26 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
By decade
In 1985, its biggest year
Shain was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Shain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Antwoinepeak 1984
- Decarlospeak 1975
- Jonpaulpeak 1979
- Lajuanpeak 1972
- Dedrickpeak 1977
- Shanepeak 1973
- Ryonpeak 1989
- Correypeak 1989
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.