Shyan
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shyan has been given to 861 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1999, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Shyan, 2018
1 in 586,000
Shyan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shyan?
Shyan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 586,000
- 6 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 406,284 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shyan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shyans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shyan was born before 2000 — so the typical Shyan is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 826
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (376).
Is Shyan 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
- 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 1999 (56)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shyan
Shyan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 83.8% against Shyan's 0.06%.
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 Shyan is used
Across 1910–2025, Shyan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 683,471 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7Tennessee1 in —
- 8Texas1 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. Shyan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shyan around the world
Where Shyan 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 & Wales2000–2010#4,012in 2010
- Canada1995–2008#2,774in 2008
- South Australia2001–2004#700in 2004
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.
Shyan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shyan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shyan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.