Shaelynn
#7,088 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaelynn has been given to 1,940 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #7,088 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Shaelynn, 2025
1 in 207,000
Shaelynn over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shaelynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,088
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaelynn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaelynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaelynn was born before 2007 — so the typical Shaelynn is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,940
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (702).
Is Shaelynn rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −2,217
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,190
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,127
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.27×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 18.8%
- Peak was 2008 (85)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shaelynn
Shaelynn is not the most common spelling — Raelynn is, with 41.1% against Shaelynn's 2.3%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shaelynn is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaelynn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 269,187 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 25,000
- 2Arizona1 in 100,000
- 3Colorado1 in 100,000
- 4Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 6Ohio1 in 100,000
- 7Washington1 in 100,000
- 8California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shaelynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaelynn around the world
Where Shaelynn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2008–2024#5,402in 2024
- Canada1993–2020#3,347in 2020
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shaelynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaelynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaelynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.