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
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 1,188 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 30,933since 1950
Shayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Shayla has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,777 | 113 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,796 | 112 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,603 | 130 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,531 | 140 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,375 | 160 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,177 | 197 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,198 | 195 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,122 | 218 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,058 | 242 | — | |
| 2016 | #985 | 270 | — | |
| 2015 | #797 | 354 | — | |
| 2014 | #746 | 375 | — | |
| 2013 | #667 | 429 | — | |
| 2012 | #606 | 473 | — | |
| 2011 | #509 | 577 | — | |
| 2010 | #445 | 694 | — | |
| 2009 | #393 | 802 | — | |
| 2008 | #346 | 964 | — | |
| 2007 | #324 | 1,028 | — | |
| 2006 | #330 | 1,004 | — | |
| 2005 | #384 | 815 | — | |
| 2004 | #348 | 919 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #309 | 999 | — | |
| 2002 | #314 | 975 | — | |
| 2001 | #297 | 1,052 | — | |
| 2000 | #312 | 1,009 | — | |
| 1999 | #267 | 1,188 | — | |
| 1998 | #307 | 992 | — | |
| 1997 | #279 | 1,041 | — | |
| 1996 | #275 | 1,054 | — | |
| 1995 | #323 | 846 | — | |
| 1994 | #330 | 811 | — | |
| 1993 | #318 | 831 | — | |
| 1992 | #317 | 865 | — | |
| 1991 | #317 | 851 | — | |
| 1990 | #337 | 799 | — | |
| 1989 | #361 | 710 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #361 | 676 | — | |
| 1987 | #393 | 583 | — | |
| 1986 | #405 | 548 | — | |
| 1985 | #407 | 556 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #408 | 520 | — | |
| 1983 | #405 | 533 | — | |
| 1982 | #432 | 506 | — | |
| 1981 | #431 | 492 | — | |
| 1980 | #477 | 441 | — | |
| 1979 | #595 | 302 | — | |
| 1978 | #553 | 315 | — | |
| 1977 | #545 | 326 | — | |
| 1976 | #790 | 179 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,083 | 108 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,334 | 79 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,433 | 68 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,353 | 74 | — | |
| 1971 | #836 | 164 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
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| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
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| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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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 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#438 · 1 in 3,799
- South Carolina#457 · 1 in 3,457
- Alabama#586 · 1 in 5,315
- Texas#711 · 1 in 6,109
- Florida#717 · 1 in 6,823
Best ever in a state: #62 in Hawaii, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | #438 | 9 | 1 in 3,799 |
| South Carolina | #457 | 6 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Alabama | #586 | 5 | 1 in 5,315 |
| Texas | #711 | 17 | 1 in 6,109 |
| Florida | #717 | 7 | 1 in 6,823 |
| Pennsylvania | #734 | 8 | 1 in 10,044 |
| Ohio | #778 | 8 | 1 in 10,459 |
| Illinois | #886 | 8 | 1 in 10,335 |
| California | #902 | 16 | 1 in 9,275 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shayla
- 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)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1999 at #267 (1,188 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1976–2016
- 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%)
- 30.9% of all girls named Shayla (9,567) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 46 | #3,696 (1957) | #4,545 |
| 1960s | 149 | #2,396 (1969) | #3,611 |
| 1970s | 1,649 | #545 (1977) | #1,079 |
| 1980s | 5,565 | #361 (1989) | #408 |
| 1990s | 9,278 | #267 (1999) | #307 |
| 2000s | 9,567 | #297 (2001) | #336 |
| 2010s | 3,827 | #445 (2010) | #813 |
| 2020s | 852 | #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 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 10,145 of them was named Shayla, which outranked 91.3% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #833Patrica166
- #833Roseann166
- #835Jayne165
- #836Shayla164
- #836Barbra164
- #836Carmela164
- #836Myrna164
- #842Carin163
- #842Dori163
- #842Leila163
Tied with 5 names at #836; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.