Shayden — #6618 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shayden

The Social Security Administration has registered 960 babies named Shayden between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shayden currently holds the #6618 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 62 babies received it in a single year. Shayden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 289 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shayden performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 458 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shayden shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 119 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Shayden in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shayden 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 960 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.