Meaning not yet researched.
Shaelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,149 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,149 in 2000; #6,516 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,516 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,149.
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Shaelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,149 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 177 (2000).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Shaelyn, making it the 6,516th most common girls’ name of the year, down 391 places from #6,125 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 20 girls named Shaelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,149, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 177. For comparison, it was #2,349 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaelyn in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 3,494 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,534 babies named Shaelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 373 US girls were named Shaelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaylynn (2,318 babies since 1880), Shaylyn (2,109 babies since 1880), Shalyn (1,992 babies since 1880) and Shaelynn (1,940 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shailyn, Shaylen and Shalin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shailyn (829), Shaylen (613), Shalin (508), Shailynn (434), Shaylan (388), Shaelin (287), Shaylon (253), Shallon (246), Shalan (117), Shailen (85), Shallyn (85), Shalen (83), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shaelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,516 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,125 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2015 | 79 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2007 | 159 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 2000 | 177 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1998 | 159 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1997 | 112 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1996 | 107 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,550 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,508 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,434 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,473 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,386 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,836 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,685 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,554 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).