Shaylah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaylah has been given to 959 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2006, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Shaylah, 2024
1 in 557,000
Shaylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaylah?
Shaylah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaylah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaylah was born before 2004 — so the typical Shaylah is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 959
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (375).
Is Shaylah 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (46)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shaylah
Shaylah is not the most common spelling — Shayla is, with 23.3% against Shaylah's 0.72%.
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 Shaylah is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaylah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 620,421 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Maryland1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 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. Shaylah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaylah around the world
Where Shaylah 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 & Wales2002–2019#4,686in 2019
- Canada1991–2007#2,743in 2007
- South Australia1997–2013#536in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shaylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.