Shylee
Shylee was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,690 among girls’ names; 811 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shylee?
#14,690 among girls’ names, 2025
Shylee fell from #5,808 in 2015 to #14,690 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 3.7 per million.
52 babies in 2009, the peak
Shylee peaked in 2009, when 52 girls were given it, #3,241 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,690 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,874 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,215 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,117 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,643 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,878 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,977 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,437 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,388 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,808 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,808 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,292 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,870 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,575 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,490 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,881 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,241 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,311 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,523 | 24.4 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,449 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,233 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,797 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,199 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,963 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,031 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,950 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,620 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,325 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,379 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,016 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,159 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,699 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,621 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,335 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,123 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,940 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shylee, and how old are they?
An estimated 803 Americans named Shylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 677 people named Shylee (668 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 12,585 babies since 1880, Shylee is the fifth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 196 babies (3.1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Shylee
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 Shylee and names like it
- Compare Shylee and ShylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShylee peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Shylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.