Meaning not yet researched.
Shaylin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,966 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,966 in 2000; #12,985 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaylin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,985 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,966.
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Shaylin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,966 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 91 (2003).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Shaylin, making it the 12,985th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,517 places from #9,468 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 11 girls named Shaylin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,966, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 91, in 2003. For comparison, it was #4,704 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaylin in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 1,901 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 818 babies named Shaylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 170 US girls were named Shaylin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 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 Shaylin 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 | 7 | #12,985 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,468 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,215 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,973 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,545 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,907 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,764 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,059 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,636 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,127 | 5 | #14,025 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2003 | 91 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,368 | 5 | #10,309 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,220 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,520 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,986 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,703 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,156 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,734 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,304 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,637 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,979 | — | — |
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).