Shalyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalyn has been given to 1,992 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 98 recorded.
Babies named Shalyn, 2018
1 in 586,000
Shalyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shalyn?
Shalyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 586,000
- 6 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 406,284 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalyn was born before 1996 — so the typical Shalyn is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,992
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (676).
Is Shalyn 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (98)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shalyn
Shalyn is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 73.4% against Shalyn's 0.20%.
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 Shalyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,895 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 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. Shalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalyn around the world
Where Shalyn 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.
- Canada1991–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
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.
Shalyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shalyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.