Peak popularity
1972
Usually for
Girls & boys
Trend
Holding steady
Holding steady.
Popularity of Shale since 1972
Babies named Shale per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1999, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Shale's real moment was 1972.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0 | 8 |
| 1980s | 0 | 0 |
| 1990s | 11 | 38 |
| 2000s | 10 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0 | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 | 0 |
