Shalaya
#16,892 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalaya has been given to 595 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #16,892 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Shalaya, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shalaya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shalaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,892
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalaya 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalaya was born before 2003 — so the typical Shalaya is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 595
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (200).
Is Shalaya 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,049
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,847
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.9%
- Peak was 2001 (28)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shalaya
Shalaya is not the most common spelling — Alaya is, with 15.0% against Shalaya's 0.81%.
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.
Shalaya around the world
Where Shalaya 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.
- Canada2010–2010#3,238in 2010
- South Australia1950–1950#436in 1950
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shalaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shalaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.