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Shaylee

#3,208 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaylee has been given to 7,052 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,208 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 356 recorded.

Babies named Shaylee, 2025

1 in 66,300

Shaylee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaylee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaylee means

Shaylee is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaylee

Wikidata records Shaylee as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q107392902, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,052 girls were recorded with the name Shaylee between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 356 in 2007; its best national rank was #760 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,922 in 2020 to #3,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,386 in 2015 to #3,208 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shaylee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,208
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaylee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaylee was born before 2005 — so the typical Shaylee is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,052
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (3,109).

Is Shaylee 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
−286
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,286
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,822
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.0%
Peak was 2007 (356)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#760
2003

Spellings of Shaylee

Shaylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 31.0% against Shaylee's 1.6%.

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 Shaylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Shaylee was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 29,839 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

126 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 3,846
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 4,348
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 4,545
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 5,882
  5. 5Idaho1 in 11,111
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 12,500
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 20,000

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.

Shaylee around the world

Where Shaylee 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 & Wales
    1998–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • France
    2009–2025
    #1,767
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1972–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shaylee

People whose public names include Shaylee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shaylee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,286
Best rank ever
#760
2003
Peak year
2007
356 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,052
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Shaylee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shaylee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaylee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shaylee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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