Shane
Shane is ranked 601st among boys in 2024 (473 births). Its best rank was 54th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- #601down 46 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4730.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 19735,711 births
- Best rank
- #54in 1973
- Since 1933
- 195,726people given the name
The story in the numbers
192,143 boys have been named Shane in the United States since 1933, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 5,711 births — 0.37% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 277 → 601).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1970s alone account for 26%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,583 girls have also been given it, 1.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shane | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 36 | |
| 1940s | 159 | |
| 1950s | 2,589 | |
| 1960s | 13,923 | |
| 1970s | 50,281 | |
| 1980s | 43,174 | |
| 1990s | 40,600 | |
| 2000s | 26,128 | |
| 2010s | 12,505 | |
| 2020s | 2,748 |
In 1973, its biggest year
Shane was the 54th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1973 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, James and David. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Shane
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Torrepeak 1991
- Shainpeak 1985
- Garrickpeak 1989
- Aricpeak 1977
- Ronnellpeak 1993
- Dedrickpeak 1977
- Erikpeak 1980
- Damonepeak 1974
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.