Meaning not yet researched.
Shaelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,023 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,023 in 1998; #7,090 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaelynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,090 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #2,023.
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Shaelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,023 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 85 (2008).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Shaelynn, making it the 7,090th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,216 places from #4,874 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 28 girls named Shaelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,023, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 85, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,961 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaelynn in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,940 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 702 babies named Shaelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 349 US girls were named Shaelynn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaelyn (3,494 babies since 1880), Shaylynn (2,318 babies since 1880), Shaylyn (2,109 babies since 1880) and Shalyn (1,992 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Shaelynn 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 | 16 | #7,090 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,874 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,908 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,651 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,811 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,249 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,694 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,027 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,108 | — | — |
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).