Shaylene — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaylene

The Social Security Administration has registered 994 babies named Shaylene between 1969 and 2023, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaylene currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 48 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaylene performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 353 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shaylene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 96 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Colorado and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaylene in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaylene 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 994 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.