Shayna
Shayna was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,479 among girls’ names; 16,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,900 Americans named Shayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shayna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shayna is “a female given name from Yiddish.” Its etymology gives the sense “beautiful” (שיין).
Borrowed from Yiddish שיינע (sheyne), a feminine inflection of שיין (sheyn, “beautiful”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shayna?
#2,479 among girls’ names, 2025
Shayna fell from #1,728 in 2015 to #2,479 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.3 to 44.8 per million.
676 babies in 1991, the peak
Shayna peaked in 1991, when 676 girls were given it, #381 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,479 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,632 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,932 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,362 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,283 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,094 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,138 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,963 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,862 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,728 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,725 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,545 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 190 | #1,262 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 247 | #1,052 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 276 | #973 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 329 | #858 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 344 | #796 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 302 | #841 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 317 | #801 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 316 | #783 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 354 | #708 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 363 | #686 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 449 | #578 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 452 | #559 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 520 | #489 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 551 | #456 | 0.32 |
| 1996 | 588 | #433 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 560 | #454 | 0.32 |
| 1994 | 597 | #421 | 0.33 |
| 1993 | 602 | #414 | 0.33 |
| 1992 | 661 | #392 | 0.36 |
| 1991 | 676 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 629 | #412 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 585 | #425 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 621 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1987 | 561 | #407 | 0.32 |
| 1986 | 472 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 506 | #435 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 454 | #460 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 255 | #673 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 216 | #766 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 217 | #761 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 196 | #816 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 199 | #798 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 179 | #833 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 175 | #848 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 159 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,382 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,545 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,447 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,903 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,096 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,618 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,398 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,134 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,992 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,876 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shayna has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shayna, and how old are they?
15,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,272 Americans ever recorded as Shayna. The median Shayna alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 14,154 people named Shayna (14,142 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 56 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,220 |
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 Shayna born?
The states with the most babies named Shayna are New York, California and Florida, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #1,080 | 1.4× |
| California | 11 | #1,931 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,860 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,149 | 1.6× |
Where Shayna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shayna is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1957 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shayna 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 138,350 babies since 1880, Shayna is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 274 babies (26%), the second 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 Shayna
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 Shayna and names like it
- Compare Shayna and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShayna peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shayna since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shayna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shayna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.