Shailynn
#14,673 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shailynn has been given to 434 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #14,673 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Shailynn, 2025
1 in 553,000
Shailynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shailynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,673
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shailynn 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shailynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shailynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shailynn was born before 2006 — so the typical Shailynn is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 434
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (193).
Is Shailynn 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
- +332
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,419
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,737
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.40×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.0%
- Peak was 2002 (24)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shailynn
Shailynn is not the most common spelling — Kailynn is, with 14.3% against Shailynn's 1.3%.
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.
Shailynn around the world
Where Shailynn 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.
- Canada1996–1998#2,528in 1998
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shailynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shailynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shailynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.