Shaylin
Shaylin was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,981 among girls’ names; 1,901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Shaylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaylin?
#12,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaylin fell from #4,703 in 2015 to #12,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 4.4 per million.
91 babies in 2003, the peak
Shaylin peaked in 2003, when 91 girls were given it, #1,999 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,981 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,463 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,210 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,968 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,541 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,902 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,430 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,760 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,055 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,973 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,703 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,411 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,634 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,516 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,126 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,721 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,417 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,481 | 40.7 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,388 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,345 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,248 | 43.8 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,321 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,999 | 49.8 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,093 | 45.6 |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,005 | 47.2 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,962 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,032 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,041 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,471 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,365 | 31.9 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,578 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,425 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,477 | 28.2 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,200 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,978 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,837 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,994 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,215 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,446 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,517 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,984 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,701 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,154 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,732 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,303 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,634 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,977 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaylin has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shaylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaylin, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,901 Americans ever recorded as Shaylin. The median Shaylin alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,660 people named Shaylin (1,613 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 391 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 288 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shaylin born?
The states with the most babies named Shaylin are California, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 19 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaylin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,572 babies since 1880, Shaylin is the fifth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 52 babies (13%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Shaylin
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 Shaylin and names like it
- Compare Shaylin and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaylin peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Shaylin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaylin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.