Shayla

#1,777 for girls in 2025, 113 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #8,927
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1999 · 1,188 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
30,933
since 1950

Shayla over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shayla has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201950peak #267, 1999girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,777113—
2024#1,796112—
2023#1,603130—
2022#1,531140—
2021#1,375160—
2020#1,177197—
2019#1,198195—
2018#1,122218—
2017#1,058242—
2016#985270—
2015#797354—
2014#746375—
2013#667429—
2012#606473—
2011#509577—
2010#445694—
2009#393802—
2008#346964—
2007#3241,028—
2006#3301,004—
2005#384815—
2004#348919#8,9277
2003#309999—
2002#314975—
2001#2971,052—
2000#3121,009—
1999#2671,188—
1998#307992—
1997#2791,041—
1996#2751,054—
1995#323846—
1994#330811—
1993#318831—
1992#317865—
1991#317851—
1990#337799—
1989#361710#7,9055
1988#361676—
1987#393583—
1986#405548—
1985#407556#6,5235
1984#408520—
1983#405533—
1982#432506—
1981#431492—
1980#477441—
1979#595302—
1978#553315—
1977#545326—
1976#790179—
1975#1,083108—
1974#1,33479—
1973#1,43368—
1972#1,35374—
1971#836164—
1970#2,26734—
1969#2,39629—
1968#2,78921—
1967#3,34015—
1966#3,55813—
1965#3,54913—
1964#2,91519—
1963#5,2967—
1962#3,59213—
1961#4,23910—
1960#4,4379—
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First appearance
1950

The first year at least five girls were named Shayla! It came in at #5,301, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1950–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Shayla is popular in 1950

No state had 5 or more girls named Shayla in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shayla
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 19 spots since 2024 (#1,796 → #1,777)
  • 600 spots since 2020 (#1,177 → #1,777)
  • 980 spots since 2015 (#797 → #1,777)
  • Biggest jump: 1,431 spots in 1971 (#2,267 → #836)
  • Biggest drop: 517 spots in 1972 (#836 → #1,353)
Rise & fade · girls
49 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1950
  • Peaked 1999 at #267 (1,188 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 42 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1976–2016
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,493
  • Highest: 1 in 1,493 girls born in 1999 were named Shayla (0.07%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,224 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 30.9% of all girls named Shayla (9,567) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s46#3,696 (1957)#4,545
1960s149#2,396 (1969)#3,611
1970s1,649#545 (1977)#1,079
1980s5,565#361 (1989)#408
1990s9,278#267 (1999)#307
2000s9,567#297 (2001)#336
2010s3,827#445 (2010)#813
2020s852#1,177 (2020)#1,543

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.

Shayla in 1950

girls
#5,301
5 births · 1 in 342,611 girls

Top girls' names in 1950

  1. #1Linda80,433
  2. #2Mary65,481
  3. #3Patricia47,944
  4. #4Barbara41,556
  5. #5Susan38,017
  6. #6Nancy29,617
  7. #7Deborah29,063
  8. #8Sandra28,896
  9. #9Carol26,163
  10. #10Kathleen25,706
  11. #5,301Shayla5
More about 1950

girls

1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 342,611 of them was named Shayla, which outranked 13.2% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shayla
  1. #4,738Zilphia6
  2. #4,738Zonia6
  3. #4,738Zulma6
  4. #5,301Shayla5
  5. #5,301Abagail5
  6. #5,301Adonica5
  7. #5,301Adora5

Tied with 808 names at #5,301; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1949
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,242Mindy#2,013 → #771
  2. ↑ 649Geralyn#1,627 → #978
  3. ↑ 636Kyle#1,512 → #876
  4. ↑ 416Debrah#1,109 → #693
  5. ↑ 405Debbra#1,353 → #948
Fallers
  1. ↓ 241Luana#823 → #1,064
  2. ↓ 231Christene#930 → #1,161
  3. ↓ 216Pearline#785 → #1,001
  4. ↓ 210Ingrid#518 → #728
  5. ↓ 201Dayle#982 → #1,183

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1950 →