The name Shay for boys in Scotland

This page shows the Shay (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1996 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Shay was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Shay's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Shay for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Shay appears in 30 of them, from 1996 to 2025, with 919 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2012, when the table records 71 babies given the name, at rank 96 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1996 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Shay for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.