Shaylyn

Peak · girls
1993 · 88 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,109
since 1976

Shaylyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shaylyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #1,694, 1993girls
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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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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#11,1228
2023#15,1945
2022#6,70717
2021#8,02413
2020#7,21215
2019#10,4739
2018#6,01020
2017#7,09216
2016#7,98814
2015#4,29533
2014#4,54431
2013#5,48624
2012#4,95728
2011#3,30349
2010#2,90659
2009#3,00057
2008#3,15853
2007#2,48575
2006#2,75764
2005#2,48270
2004#2,42470
2003#2,67359
2002#2,15877
2001#2,09679
2000#1,93887
1999#1,91482
1998#1,80186
1997#1,80283
1996#1,80681
1995#2,05266
1994#1,84177
1993#1,69488
1992#1,98769
1991#2,13662
1990#1,95270
1989#2,11958
1988#2,80337
1987#3,10130
1986#3,27727
1985#3,41925
1984#4,73715
1983#4,28617
1982#4,52716
1981#3,85920
1980#3,60922
1979#2,79531
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Shaylyn! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Shaylyn is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Shaylyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shaylyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,015 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #10,107)
  • 2,895 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1993 at #1,694 (88 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 20,546
  • Highest: 1 in 20,546 girls born in 1998 were named Shaylyn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,694 in 1993, was only 1 in 20,558 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 36.2% of all girls named Shaylyn (764) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s37#2,795 (1979)#5,476
1980s267#2,119 (1989)#3,574
1990s764#1,694 (1993)#1,899
2000s691#1,938 (2000)#2,517
2010s283#2,906 (2010)#5,705
2020s67#6,707 (2022)#9,728

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.

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