Shylah
Shylah was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,534 among girls’ names; 1,779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Shylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shylah?
#5,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Shylah fell from #3,382 in 2015 to #5,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 14.3 per million.
114 babies in 2007, the peak
Shylah peaked in 2007, when 114 girls were given it, #1,857 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,534 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,273 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,639 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,278 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,394 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,831 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,908 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,731 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,909 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,052 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,382 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,552 | 39.2 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,802 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,313 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,896 | 60.3 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,423 | 43.9 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,146 | 51.2 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,029 | 54.5 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,857 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,417 | 41.0 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,547 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,383 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,862 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,737 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,854 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,124 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,845 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,613 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,609 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,684 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,979 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,541 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,210 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,446 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,516 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,726 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,477 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,046 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,904 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,156 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,935 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,852 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,694 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,705 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,707 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,884 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,617 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,350 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,569 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shylah, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,779 Americans ever recorded as Shylah. The median Shylah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,309 people named Shylah (1,309 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 179 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 957 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 532 |
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 Shylah born?
The states with the most babies named Shylah are California, Florida and New York, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 127 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 69 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 62 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Shylah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shylah?
Shylah is a less common spelling of Shyla: SSA has recorded 1,779 Shylah and 8,026 Shyla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 38,932 babies since 1880, Shylah is the third most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 2,534 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Shylah
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 Shylah and names like it
- Compare Shylah and ShylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShylah peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Shylah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shylah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.