Shailynn
Shailynn was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,673 among girls’ names; 434 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shailynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shailynn?
#14,673 among girls’ names, 2025
Shailynn fell from #7,936 in 2015 to #14,673 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.7 per million.
24 babies in 2002, the peak
Shailynn peaked in 2002, when 24 girls were given it, #5,059 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,673 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,005 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,254 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,275 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,448 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,834 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,713 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,936 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,420 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,507 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,623 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,134 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,347 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,275 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,925 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,286 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,275 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,206 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,636 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,526 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,059 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,776 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,658 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,780 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,316 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,626 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,699 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,636 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,542 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,324 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,464 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,458 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shailynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shailynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shailynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shailynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 429 Americans named Shailynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 317 people named Shailynn (316 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Shailynn?
Shailynn is a less common spelling of Shaylynn: SSA has recorded 434 Shailynn and 2,318 Shaylynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,604 babies since 1880, Shailynn is the eighth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 62 babies (9.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shailynn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shailynn and names like it
- Compare Shailynn and ShaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShailynn peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Shailynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shailynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.