Shaylah
Shaylah was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 959 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaylah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,012, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 2006, the peak
Shaylah peaked in 2006, when 46 girls were given it, #3,497 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #15,012 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,034 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,045 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,039 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,269 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,298 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,095 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,227 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,326 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,871 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #6,667 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,868 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,865 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,773 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,292 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,607 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,701 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,906 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,497 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,356 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,072 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,196 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,262 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,695 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,791 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,300 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,482 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,213 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,950 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,816 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,988 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,960 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,656 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,619 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,808 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,926 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,561 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,879 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,502 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,447 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,868 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,991 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaylah, and how old are they?
An estimated 947 Americans named Shaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 743 people named Shaylah (741 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 916 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Shaylah?
Shaylah is a less common spelling of Shayla: SSA has recorded 959 Shaylah and 30,950 Shayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,550 babies since 1880, Shaylah is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 197 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaylah (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 Shaylah
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 Shaylah and names like it
- Compare Shaylah and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaylah peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Shaylah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaylah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.