Shynia
Shynia was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 139 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shynia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shynia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,683, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1996, the peak
Shynia peaked in 1996, when 13 girls were given it, #7,074 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,683 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,012 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,168 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,527 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,281 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,843 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,803 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,753 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,122 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,070 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #12,496 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,172 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,928 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,074 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,161 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shynia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shynia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shynia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shynia, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Shynia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 138 people named Shynia (137 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 138 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,735 babies since 1880, Shynia is the fourth most given (5.1% of them).
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 Shynia
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 Shynia and names like it
- Compare Shynia and ShyannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShynia peaked in 1996.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Shynia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shynia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.