Shyla
Shyla was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,322 among girls’ names; 8,026 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,880 Americans named Shyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shyla is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
A 20th-century coinage, possibly inspired by Sheila.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shyla?
#2,322 among girls’ names, 2025
Shyla fell from #1,452 in 2015 to #2,322 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 89.1 to 49.2 per million.
365 babies in 2008, the peak
Shyla peaked in 2008, when 365 girls were given it, #797 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,322 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,866 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,720 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,668 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,483 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,368 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,842 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,850 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,852 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,854 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,452 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,106 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 252 | #1,004 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 304 | #876 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 352 | #806 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 365 | #797 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 352 | #818 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 288 | #920 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,039 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,073 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,077 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 179 | #1,154 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 201 | #1,061 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,083 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 213 | #971 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,089 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 187 | #1,027 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 174 | #1,068 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 151 | #1,152 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 142 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,337 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 128 | #1,301 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,440 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,466 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,451 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,395 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,567 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,630 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,494 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 119 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,527 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,549 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,588 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,826 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,249 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,050 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,855 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,129 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,453 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,299 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,457 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,443 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,161 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shyla, and how old are they?
7,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,026 Americans ever recorded as Shyla. The median Shyla alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 6,390 people named Shyla (6,379 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,216 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 60 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 538 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Shyla born?
The states with the most babies named Shyla are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,462 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #2,038 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,730 | 0.6× |
Where Shyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shyla is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1942 it was given 3.6 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 Shyla 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 21,121 babies since 1880, Shyla is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 382 babies (21%), 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 Shyla
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 Shyla and names like it
- Compare Shyla and ShielaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShyla peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shyla since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Shyla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Shyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.