Shay
106
Babies in 2024
-48%
10-year change
2010
Peak · 338
+12%
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 Shay
Shay appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #389 with 106 boys registered in England & Wales.
Shay reached its peak in 2010, when 338 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #164 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 106 represents 31% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,165 boys have been officially registered with the name Shay in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,443 boys were registered with the name, starting from 204 in 2014 and ending at 106 in 2024.