Shaylen
Shaylen was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 613 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 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 Shaylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaylen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,317, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 2002, the peak
Shaylen peaked in 2002, when 45 babies were given it (39 girls, #3,514 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,317 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,209 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,046 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,154 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,760 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,837 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,130 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,940 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,255 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,510 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 22 | #6,080 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,554 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,387 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,684 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,343 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,790 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,097 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,493 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,187 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,383 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,514 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,978 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,165 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,788 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,662 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,585 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,730 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,648 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,531 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,411 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,526 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,883 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,890 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,543 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,890 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,383 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,186 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,173 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 613 Americans recorded as Shaylen, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaylen, and how old are they?
An estimated 605 Americans named Shaylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 600 people named Shaylen (512 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,572 babies since 1880, Shaylen is the eighth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaylen (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 Shaylen
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 Shaylen and names like it
- Compare Shaylen and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaylen peaked in 2002.
- Colorado’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Shaylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.