Shaylyn
#10,787 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaylyn has been given to 2,109 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #10,787 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 88 recorded.
Babies named Shaylyn, 2025
1 in 368,000
Shaylyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaylyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,787
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaylyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaylyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaylyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaylyn was born before 1999 — so the typical Shaylyn is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,109
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (764).
Is Shaylyn 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
- +1,210
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,273
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,390
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.27×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.2%
- Peak was 1993 (88)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shaylyn
Shaylyn is not the most common spelling — Shayla is, with 28.3% against Shaylyn's 1.9%.
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 Shaylyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaylyn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 235,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 20,000
- 2Arizona1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in 100,000
- 4Colorado1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Indiana1 in —
- 8Massachusetts1 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. Shaylyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaylyn around the world
Where Shaylyn 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.
- Canada1991–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia2003–2003#739in 2003
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.
Shaylyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaylyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shaylyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaylyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shaylyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.