Shayanna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shayanna has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1996, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Shayanna, 2020
1 in 477,000
Shayanna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shayanna?
Shayanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 477,000
- 7 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 330,960 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shayanna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shayanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shayannas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shayanna was born before 2000 — so the typical Shayanna is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 294
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (126).
Is Shayanna 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (23)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shayanna
Shayanna is not the most common spelling — Savanna is, with 23.4% against Shayanna's 0.21%.
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.
Shayanna around the world
Where Shayanna 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.
- England & Wales2012–2012#5,876in 2012
- France2011–2024#3,432in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Shayanna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shayanna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shayanna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.