Meaning not yet researched.
Shayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #267 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #267 in 1999; #1,793 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,793 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #267.
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Shayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #267 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 1,188 (1999).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Shayla, making it the 1,793rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #1,807 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 112 girls named Shayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #267, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,188. For comparison, it was #797 in 2015 and #5,988 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shayla in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 30,950 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,574 babies named Shayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,777 US girls were named Shayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 270. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shayla ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,021 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaila (3,260 babies since 1880) and Shala (2,061 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shaela, Shaylah and Shailah 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: Shaela (1,124), Shaylah (959), Shailah (171), Shalah (138), Shalae (126), Shalay (112), Shahla (99), Shalla (91), Shaula (56), Shaelah (28), Shalai (19), Shallah (18), 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 Shayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,021 | #426 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,023 | #1,053 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,197 | #647 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,260 | #675 |
| New York | 9 | #1,511 | #661 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,859 | #731 |
| Texas | 11 | #2,022 | #1,089 |
| California | 10 | #2,066 | #739 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2022 | 140 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2021 | 160 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2020 | 197 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2019 | 195 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2018 | 218 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2017 | 242 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2016 | 270 | #986 | — | — |
| 2015 | 354 | #797 | — | — |
| 2014 | 375 | #749 | — | — |
| 2013 | 429 | #667 | — | — |
| 2012 | 473 | #606 | — | — |
| 2011 | 577 | #509 | — | — |
| 2010 | 694 | #445 | — | — |
| 2009 | 802 | #393 | — | — |
| 2008 | 964 | #347 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,028 | #324 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,004 | #330 | — | — |
| 2005 | 815 | #386 | — | — |
| 2004 | 919 | #348 | 7 | #9,780 |
| 2003 | 999 | #309 | — | — |
| 2002 | 975 | #314 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,052 | #297 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,009 | #312 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,188 | #267 | — | — |
| 1998 | 992 | #307 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,041 | #279 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,054 | #276 | — | — |
| 1995 | 846 | #323 | — | — |
| 1994 | 811 | #330 | — | — |
| 1993 | 831 | #319 | — | — |
| 1992 | 865 | #317 | — | — |
| 1991 | 851 | #317 | — | — |
| 1990 | 799 | #337 | — | — |
| 1989 | 710 | #363 | 5 | #9,024 |
| 1988 | 676 | #361 | — | — |
| 1987 | 583 | #394 | — | — |
| 1986 | 548 | #405 | — | — |
| 1985 | 556 | #407 | 5 | #7,424 |
| 1984 | 520 | #408 | — | — |
| 1983 | 533 | #405 | — | — |
| 1982 | 506 | #434 | — | — |
| 1981 | 492 | #432 | — | — |
| 1980 | 441 | #477 | — | — |
| 1979 | 302 | #597 | — | — |
| 1978 | 315 | #554 | — | — |
| 1977 | 326 | #545 | — | — |
| 1976 | 179 | #791 | — | — |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1973 | 68 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1971 | 164 | #841 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,988 | — | — |
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).