Shayden
Shayden was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,089 among boys’ names; 1,264 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Shayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shayden?
#6,089 among boys’ names, 2025
Shayden fell from #4,677 in 2015 to #6,089 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 8.8 per million.
86 babies in 2008, the peak
Shayden peaked in 2008, when 86 babies were given it (62 boys, #2,179 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 15 | #6,089 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 13 | #6,763 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 18 | #5,421 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,397 | 21 | #4,820 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,271 | 24 | #4,341 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 29 | #3,714 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,283 | 24 | #4,310 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 32 | #3,504 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,068 | 17 | #5,487 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,650 | 25 | #4,180 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,834 | 21 | #4,677 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,052 | 27 | #3,867 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,092 | 27 | #3,843 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,283 | 44 | #2,757 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,372 | 51 | #2,472 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,828 | 51 | #2,464 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,633 | 43 | #2,839 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,928 | 62 | #2,179 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,512 | 61 | #2,206 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,197 | 46 | #2,615 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,230 | 52 | #2,286 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,177 | 50 | #2,300 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,523 | 44 | #2,414 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,995 | 35 | #2,739 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,878 | 40 | #2,471 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,101 | 25 | #3,401 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 15 | #4,718 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,978 | 15 | #4,606 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 12 | #5,224 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 10 | #5,899 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,381 | 11 | #5,444 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,875 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,274 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,264 Americans recorded as Shayden, 23% are girls and 77% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shayden, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,264 Americans ever recorded as Shayden. The median Shayden alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 997 people named Shayden (262 women and girls, 735 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 358 |
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).
Where are babies named Shayden born?
The states with the most babies named Shayden are Hawaii, California and Utah, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii and Utah are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 119 | not ranked | 24.0× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Utah | 24 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shayden is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1992 it was given 24.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shayden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,042 babies since 1880, Shayden is the most given (62% 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 Shayden
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 Shayden and names like it
- Compare Shayden and ShadenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShayden peaked in 2008.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shayden since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Shayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.