Meaning not yet researched.
Shayna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #381 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #381 in 1991; #2,479 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shayna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,479 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #381.
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Shayna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #381 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 676 (1991).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Shayna, making it the 2,479th most common girls’ name of the year, up 153 places from #2,632 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 67 girls named Shayna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #381, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 676. For comparison, it was #1,728 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shayna in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 16,272 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,836 babies named Shayna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 839 US girls were named Shayna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shayna ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,080 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Sheena (22,447 babies since 1880), Shaina (12,010 babies since 1880) and Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yaffa 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: Yaffa (463).
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 Shayna 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #1,080 | #850 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,149 | #498 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,860 | #1,173 |
| California | 11 | #1,931 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2015 | 122 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2010 | 190 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2009 | 247 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2008 | 276 | #973 | — | — |
| 2007 | 329 | #858 | — | — |
| 2006 | 344 | #796 | — | — |
| 2005 | 302 | #841 | — | — |
| 2004 | 317 | #801 | — | — |
| 2003 | 316 | #783 | — | — |
| 2002 | 354 | #708 | — | — |
| 2001 | 363 | #686 | — | — |
| 2000 | 449 | #578 | — | — |
| 1999 | 452 | #559 | — | — |
| 1998 | 520 | #489 | — | — |
| 1997 | 551 | #456 | — | — |
| 1996 | 588 | #433 | — | — |
| 1995 | 560 | #454 | — | — |
| 1994 | 597 | #421 | — | — |
| 1993 | 602 | #414 | — | — |
| 1992 | 661 | #392 | — | — |
| 1991 | 676 | #381 | — | — |
| 1990 | 629 | #412 | — | — |
| 1989 | 585 | #425 | — | — |
| 1988 | 621 | #386 | — | — |
| 1987 | 561 | #407 | — | — |
| 1986 | 472 | #458 | — | — |
| 1985 | 506 | #435 | 5 | #7,425 |
| 1984 | 454 | #460 | — | — |
| 1983 | 255 | #673 | — | — |
| 1982 | 216 | #766 | — | — |
| 1981 | 217 | #761 | — | — |
| 1980 | 196 | #816 | — | — |
| 1979 | 199 | #798 | — | — |
| 1978 | 179 | #833 | — | — |
| 1977 | 175 | #848 | — | — |
| 1976 | 159 | #860 | — | — |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,229 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,749 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,993 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,878 | — | — |
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).