Shalyn
Shalyn was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 1,992 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Shalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,378, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
98 babies in 2000, the peak
Shalyn peaked in 2000, when 98 girls were given it, #1,785 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,378 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,260 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,716 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,404 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,808 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,216 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,093 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,302 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,842 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,681 | 13.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 61 | #2,919 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,647 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,305 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,114 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,839 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,360 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,950 | 50.6 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,350 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,785 | 54.0 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,703 | 54.7 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,078 | 40.2 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,251 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,120 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,209 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,401 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,717 | 48.1 |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,838 | 42.3 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,407 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,480 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,433 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,121 | 30.9 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,765 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,258 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,534 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,370 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,507 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,324 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,604 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,526 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,056 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,745 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,414 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,792 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,355 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,746 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,967 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,443 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,341 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,330 | 5.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,129 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,420 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalyn, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,992 Americans ever recorded as Shalyn. The median Shalyn alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,760 people named Shalyn (1,726 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 191 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 904 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 16,558 babies since 1880, Shalyn is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 68 babies recorded by SSA was a Shalyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shalyn
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 Shalyn and names like it
- Compare Shalyn and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShalyn peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.