Shaylene

Where Shaylene comes from

The dictionaries list Shaylene as a given name — a female given name, variant of Shayla — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #5,456 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #2,573
    48 babies named Shaylene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,487.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Shayla.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.