Shaylen — #15823 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 580 babies named Shaylen between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaylen currently holds the #15823 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Shaylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaylen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 274 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shaylen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Colorado, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shaylen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaylen 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 580 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.