Shane
37
Babies in 2024
-59%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 846
-16%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Shane
Shane peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (846 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 37 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Shane reached its peak in 1996, when 846 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #74 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 37 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 6,736 boys have been officially registered with the name Shane in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 604 boys were registered with the name, starting from 90 in 2014 and ending at 37 in 2024.