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 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#189 · 1 in 858
- North Dakota#189 · 1 in 919
- Nebraska#195 · 1 in 1,112
- Kansas#207 · 1 in 1,127
- Iowa#227 · 1 in 1,327
Best ever in a state: #62 in Hawaii, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #189 | 7 | 1 in 858 |
| North Dakota | #189 | 5 | 1 in 919 |
| Nebraska | #195 | 9 | 1 in 1,112 |
| Kansas | #207 | 13 | 1 in 1,127 |
| Iowa | #227 | 13 | 1 in 1,327 |
| Alabama | #228 | 16 | 1 in 1,362 |
| South Carolina | #228 | 14 | 1 in 1,274 |
| Utah | #228 | 13 | 1 in 1,103 |
| Oklahoma | #246 | 14 | 1 in 1,437 |
| District of Columbia | #257 | 5 | 1 in 1,138 |
| Louisiana | #259 | 19 | 1 in 1,583 |
| Florida | #277 | 37 | 1 in 1,764 |
| Arkansas | #293 | 7 | 1 in 1,814 |
| Georgia | #300 | 19 | 1 in 1,952 |
| Oregon | #305 | 9 | 1 in 1,737 |
| Mississippi | #329 | 8 | 1 in 1,842 |
| Virginia | #330 | 15 | 1 in 2,197 |
| Maryland | #344 | 10 | 1 in 2,412 |
| Indiana | #353 | 13 | 1 in 2,619 |
| Colorado | #378 | 9 | 1 in 2,440 |
| Missouri | #379 | 11 | 1 in 2,926 |
| North Carolina | #379 | 13 | 1 in 2,735 |
| Illinois | #381 | 28 | 1 in 2,607 |
| Pennsylvania | #384 | 22 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Ohio | #385 | 22 | 1 in 3,141 |
| Michigan | #394 | 19 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Texas | #400 | 52 | 1 in 2,564 |
| Massachusetts | #450 | 9 | 1 in 3,888 |
| New Jersey | #452 | 12 | 1 in 3,368 |
| Kentucky | #457 | 5 | 1 in 4,250 |
| Washington | #479 | 8 | 1 in 3,455 |
| Tennessee | #492 | 7 | 1 in 3,967 |
| Wisconsin | #575 | 5 | 1 in 6,129 |
| New York | #643 | 20 | 1 in 5,345 |
| California | #722 | 34 | 1 in 5,949 |
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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 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 3,095 of them was named Shayla, which outranked 96.7% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 369,642 of them was named Shayla, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,063 names at #6,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.