The name Shay has various origns and meanings. It is an alternate spelling of Shai, a Hebrew name which on the one hand can be derived from the word for ‘gift’, and on the other hand is a short form of Isaiah, which means ‘Yahweh is salvation’.
Shay is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
Few children have been named Shay in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 8 out of 100,000 children are currently called Shay. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Shay at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Shay is number *** on the list of most common first names.
The name Shay has various origns and meanings. It is an alternate spelling of Shai, a Hebrew name which on the one hand can be derived from the word for ‘gift’, and on the other hand is a short form of Isaiah, which means ‘Yahweh is salvation’.
Shay is also... an anglicized form of the Irish name Séaghdha, probably derived from 'ségda' meaning 'fine, good, favourable'.
In fact, the name Shay wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Shay seemed more popular than ever in 1974, when 208 parents named their children Shay. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,240, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Shay, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shay was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Shay a few times. Among all babies, it ranked 1,385, for a total of 401 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Shay seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a real popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common frist names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, J and K are more common for first names.
With four letters, the name Shay is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.7% of all first names start with an S, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Shay and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shay, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shay
Shay
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shay sounds like this:
