Shaylan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaylan

The Social Security Administration has registered 328 babies named Shaylan between 1981 and 2021, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaylan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Shaylan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 60 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaylan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shaylan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaylan 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 328 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.