Shaylyn
Shaylyn was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,787 among girls’ names; 2,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Shaylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaylyn?
#10,787 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaylyn fell from #4,397 in 2015 to #10,787 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 5.6 per million.
88 babies in 1993, the peak
Shaylyn peaked in 1993, when 88 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,787 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,997 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,256 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,944 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,392 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,514 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,246 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,199 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,385 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,327 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,397 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,639 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,622 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,089 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,345 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,933 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,041 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,213 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,506 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,775 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,497 | 37.9 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,439 | 38.1 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,696 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,172 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,110 | 43.9 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,944 | 47.9 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,933 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,815 | 48.7 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,812 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,821 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,074 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,854 | 43.1 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,702 | 48.6 |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,000 | 37.4 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,150 | 33.1 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,966 | 36.9 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,135 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,853 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,154 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,347 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,498 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,926 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,447 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,688 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,978 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,703 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,845 | 19.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,038 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaylyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaylyn, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,109 Americans ever recorded as Shaylyn. The median Shaylyn alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,797 people named Shaylyn (1,790 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 56 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 213 |
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 Shaylyn born?
The states with the most babies named Shaylyn are California, Utah and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 104 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Utah | 58 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 12 | 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 Shaylyn 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 16,558 babies since 1880, Shaylyn is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 68 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 Shaylyn
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 Shaylyn and names like it
- Compare Shaylyn and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaylyn peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Shaylyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaylyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.