Shaylynn
Shaylynn was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,273 among girls’ names; 2,318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,290 Americans named Shaylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaylynn?
#8,273 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaylynn fell from #3,521 in 2015 to #8,273 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 8.1 per million.
120 babies in 2009, the peak
Shaylynn peaked in 2009, when 120 girls were given it, #1,806 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,273 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,762 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,714 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,884 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,589 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,150 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,380 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,132 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,617 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,133 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,521 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,493 | 40.9 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,653 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,543 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,834 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,422 | 43.9 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,806 | 65.3 |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,860 | 60.8 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,082 | 51.0 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,247 | 45.2 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,401 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,390 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,432 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,301 | 39.5 |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,853 | 52.8 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,932 | 48.5 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,148 | 40.0 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,825 | 48.1 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,940 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,246 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,273 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,451 | 29.1 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,814 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,859 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,610 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,351 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,101 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,462 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,268 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,415 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,610 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,217 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,155 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,844 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,019 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,252 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,805 | 9.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,429 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,322 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,962 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaylynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaylynn, and how old are they?
2,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,318 Americans ever recorded as Shaylynn. The median Shaylynn alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,798 people named Shaylynn (1,789 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 451 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,071 babies since 1880, Shaylynn is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 63 babies (21%), the third 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 Shaylynn
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 Shaylynn and names like it
- Compare Shaylynn and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaylynn peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Shaylynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaylynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.