Meaning not yet researched.
Shaylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,706 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,706 in 1993; #10,791 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaylyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,791 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,706.
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Shaylyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,706 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 88 (1993).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Shaylyn, making it the 10,791st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,211 places from #12,002 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Shaylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,706, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #4,398 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaylyn in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 2,109 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 764 babies named Shaylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 126 US girls were named Shaylyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 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), Shalyn (1,992 babies since 1880) and Shaelynn (1,940 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 Shaylyn 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 | 9 | #10,791 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,002 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,262 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,949 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,397 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,251 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,203 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,389 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,330 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,624 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,091 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,040 | — | — |
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).