Sheylin — #9861 US girls' name
164 babies named Sheylin in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 44% of names given to girls today.
42% of everyone ever named Sheylin was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Sheylin in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sheylin
The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Sheylin between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sheylin currently holds the #9861 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheylin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sheylin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sheylin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sheylin 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 164 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.
Sheylin at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Sheylin popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2023)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #9861 among girls.
164 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 17 births in a single year.
Sheylin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 69 births that decade — 42% of Sheylin's all-time total
Sheylin decade highlights
- Peak decade 69 births
- Runner-up 45 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Sheylin's strongest decade
69 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Sheylin by state
Where Sheylin concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 164 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.