Shayda — girls' name
312 babies named Shayda in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
312 girls have been named Shayda since 1982, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2022.
- 312
- total births
- 1982–2022
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 32%
- born in that decade
32% of everyone ever named Shayda was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Shayda in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shayda
The Social Security Administration has registered 312 babies named Shayda between 1982 and 2022, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shayda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shayda performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shayda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shayda in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shayda 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 312 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.
Shayda at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shayda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1982
- Peak year (2006)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
312 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 18 births in a single year.
Shayda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 100 births that decade — 32% of Shayda's all-time total
Shayda decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 99 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Shayda's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Shayda by state
Where Shayda concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 40 | 12.8% |
40 of 312 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 12.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.