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I like it spelled Shea and only on a boy.
For a girl, I prefer a girl's version. Maybe Shayla? It all just seems a little 1990s though.

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I'm a writer and one of my main characters is named Shealyn (link: Shaelyn), but it's a 30-year-old man and he goes by just Shea.

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My bf's middle name is Shea. I like it as a middle name, but idk about a first name. It could work I guess, but I don't really like the Shae or Shaye spellings.

I've always really liked the name, but I do prefer it as a mn. Shae is my fave spelling. Shai "shy" is nmsaa.

i really like it for a girl and would pair it with a longer, girly middle name like Alessandra or Valentina :)
my favorite spelling is either Shay or Shea

I don't mind it. My niece's name is Shay, it's short for Shayenne (like Cheyenne)

I had a friend growing up, Sheena, who had a sister named Shae'lan.

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I like Shae'lan (prn. Shay-lin), because I knew her before ay-names and lyn-names were "cool", and I'm pretty sure she was named after something super-Gaelic since her parents were both born and raised in Scotland.

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Shaye is kinda nice, but I think it would be far cooler on a boy.

I love Shae, though my personal favorite spelling is Shay. Shaye works as well. I agree with you on Shai, though, where it would be pronounced as SHY.

no

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Shae and the sound of it are very tryndee now. Lashay, Shaelynn, Shayleigh, Shaianna, you name it. It has no substance to it. I picture a Shae/Shay as some thirty-year-old woman whose real name was Sharon or Shannon and then she started dyeing her hair, got breast implants and started waiting tables in a rave club and needed a new name to go with her new image.

Shae is okay. I perfer Shay and as a middle name. I don't like Shai if it is pronounced like SHY.

Shae for a girl is cute. I actually like it better for a boy though, I don't know why. I actually like Shea the best for a spelling, but of your spellings esp if it is for a girl I like Shae.

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I am not a fan of Shai.

I don't think I'd ever use it, but I like it well enough. I tend to dislike "modern" names, so if I were going to use it I'd probably go with the spelling Shea, which has some more legitimacy as an Anglicized form of an Irish name.

I like Shay better.