Shaelynn
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 74 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,940since 1985
Shaelynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaelynn has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 |
| 2010 | #2,296 | 83 |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 |
| 2008 | #2,295 | 85 |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 |
| 2003 | #2,301 | 73 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 |
| 2001 | #2,211 | 73 |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,115 | 72 |
| 1998 | #2,013 | 74 |
| 1997 | #2,174 | 63 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shaelynn! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shaelynn is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#596 · 1 in 3,063
- California#3,451 · 1 in 41,525
Best ever in a state: #233 in Hawaii, 2005.
Show every state
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| Kentucky | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,063 |
| California | #3,451 | 5 | 1 in 41,525 |
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See more about Shaelynn
- 2,066 spots since 2024 (#4,772 → #6,838)
- 2,997 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #6,838)
- 3,911 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1998 at #2,013 (74 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,417 girls born in 2010 were named Shaelynn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,013 in 1998, was only 1 in 23,878 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.2% of all girls named Shaelynn (702) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 54 | #4,670 (1989) | #7,197 |
| 1990s | 403 | #2,013 (1998) | #3,388 |
| 2000s | 702 | #2,211 (2001) | #2,479 |
| 2010s | 610 | #2,296 (2010) | #2,914 |
| 2020s | 171 | #3,841 (2020) | #4,847 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shaelynn in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 23,771 of them was named Shaelynn, which outranked 87.5% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 28 names at #2,454; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.