Shalaya
Shalaya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,892 among girls’ names; 595 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalaya?
#16,892 among girls’ names, 2025
Shalaya fell from #10,045 in 2015 to #16,892 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
28 babies in 2001, the peak
Shalaya peaked in 2001, when 28 girls were given it, #4,423 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,892 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,965 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,308 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,843 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,362 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,594 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,580 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,338 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,045 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,422 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 17 | #7,323 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,558 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,301 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,825 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,388 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,926 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,503 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,794 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,752 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,329 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,836 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,339 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,423 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,093 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,428 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,317 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,231 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,058 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,625 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,930 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,956 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,496 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,455 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,788 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,498 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,589 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,595 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,360 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,089 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,686 | 5.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,924 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,133 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,894 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 586 Americans named Shalaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 448 people named Shalaya (446 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 562 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,270 babies since 1880, Shalaya is the fourth most given (11% of them).
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 Shalaya
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 Shalaya and names like it
- Compare Shalaya and ShalaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShalaya peaked in 2001.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Shalaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shalaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.