Shylah
#5,534 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shylah has been given to 1,779 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,534 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 114 recorded.
Babies named Shylah, 2025
1 in 144,000
Shylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,534
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shylah 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shylah was born before 2009 — so the typical Shylah is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,779
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (621).
Is Shylah 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
- −261
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,703
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,152
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.48×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.2%
- Peak was 2007 (114)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shylah
Shylah is not the most common spelling — Skylar is, with 32.7% against Shylah's 0.66%.
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 Shylah is used
Across 1910–2025, Shylah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 235,800 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Massachusetts1 in —
- 6Maryland1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Shylah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shylah around the world
Where Shylah 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 & Wales2005–2024#5,892in 2024
- Canada2006–2020#3,347in 2020
- South Australia1981–2013#818in 2013
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.
Shylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.