Shaw
Shaw is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202039 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,371people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,315 boys have been named Shaw in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 39 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2010s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 56 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shaw | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 16 | |
| 1960s | 71 | |
| 1970s | 195 | |
| 1980s | 179 | |
| 1990s | 186 | |
| 2000s | 205 | |
| 2010s | 284 | |
| 2020s | 156 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Shaw was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Shaw
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nikolaospeak 2014
- Moishepeak 2015
- Jamiesonpeak 1974
- Kendrickpeak 2013
- Yusefpeak 2024
- Romeropeak 2019
- Rahimpeak 2018
- Alonpeak 2022
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.