Shy was the #11,932 girls' name in the US in 2025 (7 babies).
Shy as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
2025
#11,932 (7)
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2023
#10,312 (9)
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2022
#13,592 (6)
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2021
#13,464 (6)
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2020
#15,088 (5)
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2018
#15,682 (5)
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2017
#11,615 (8)
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2016
#12,876 (7)
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2015
#11,835 (8)
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2013
#16,547 (5)
#5,742 (3)
2012
#8,208 (14)
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2011
#13,347 (7)
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2010
#9,790 (11)
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2009
#9,379 (12)
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2008
#8,965 (13)
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Shy as a boy’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2023
#10,821 (6)
2022
#8,300 (9)
2020
#12,022 (5)
2019
#12,145 (5)
2008
#12,553 (5)
2002
#10,667 (5)
2001
#10,556 (5)
1997
#9,265 (5)
1994
#7,770 (6)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1997 at #3,547.
Rising over the last five years.
First recorded in the US in 1973.
In 2023, 60% of US babies named Shy were girls.
How common is it?
about 1 in 250,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.