Shalynn
Shalynn was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,488 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Shalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,039, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1995, the peak
Shalynn peaked in 1995, when 65 girls were given it, #2,090 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #15,039 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,897 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,154 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,315 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,710 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,003 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,205 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,765 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,621 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,147 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | #4,662 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,097 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,090 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,700 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,283 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,306 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,793 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,316 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,030 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,054 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,589 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,663 | 30.8 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,520 | 32.1 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,839 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,968 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,216 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,090 | 37.0 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,572 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,476 | 28.2 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,857 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,608 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,346 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,303 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,781 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,500 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,160 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,395 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,958 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,085 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,681 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,603 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,930 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,642 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,880 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,603 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,129 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,356 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,917 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,496 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,841 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,443 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalynn 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 Shalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalynn, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,488 Americans ever recorded as Shalynn. The median Shalynn alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,165 people named Shalynn (1,162 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
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 15,486 babies since 1880, Shalynn is the sixth most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 61 babies recorded by SSA was a Shalynn (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 Shalynn
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 Shalynn and names like it
- Compare Shalynn and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShalynn peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Shalynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shalynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.