Shailen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shailen

The Social Security Administration has registered 80 babies named Shailen between 2002 and 2025, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shailen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Shailen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2004.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shailen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shailen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shailen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shailen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 80 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.