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Shaylene

#14,679 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Shayla

Shaylene has been given to 1,000 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #14,679 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Shaylene, 2025

1 in 553,000

Shaylene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaylene: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Shayla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaylene means

Shaylene is a variant of Shayla.

Origin, language, and formation

Shaylene is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shayla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,000 girls were recorded with the name Shaylene between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,591 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,270 in 2020 to #14,679 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,690 in 2015 to #14,679 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shaylene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,679
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaylene 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaylenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaylene was born before 1994 — so the typical Shaylene is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,000
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (353).

Is Shaylene 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
−1,409
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,989
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1993 (48)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,591
1993

Spellings of Shaylene

Shaylene is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 57.1% against Shaylene's 0.43%.

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 Shaylene is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaylene was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 244,289 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 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. Shaylene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaylene around the world

Where Shaylene 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1951–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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.

Shaylene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,679
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,409
Best rank ever
#2,591
1993
Peak year
1993
48 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,000
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Shaylene

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

ShaleneSharleneShareneShaileneShaindelShamiyahShaliyahShaelynnShariyahShailynnSharlotteShaylynnShaeleneShamayaShayleighSharanyaShaniyahShamiraShakeriaShalayaShantalShaundraShamekiaShameeka

Sibling names for Shaylene

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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