Sheyanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sheyanne has been given to 738 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1997, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Sheyanne, 2017
1 in 715,000
Sheyanne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sheyanne?
Sheyanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sheyanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheyanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheyannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheyanne was born before 1999 — so the typical Sheyanne is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 738
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (368).
Is Sheyanne 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 1997 (62)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Sheyanne
Sheyanne is not the most common spelling — Cheyenne is, with 60.8% against Sheyanne's 0.63%.
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 Sheyanne is used
Across 1910–2025, Sheyanne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 792,297 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Indiana1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Washington1 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. Sheyanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sheyanne around the world
Where Sheyanne 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.
- Canada1991–2003#2,681in 2003
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
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.
Sheyanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sheyanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sheyanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.