Meaning not yet researched.
Shyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #797 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #797 in 2008; #2,322 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,322 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #797.
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Shyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #797 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 365 (2008).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Shyla, making it the 2,322nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 456 places from #1,866 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 108 girls named Shyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #797, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 365. For comparison, it was #1,452 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shyla in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 8,026 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,581 babies named Shyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,183 US girls were named Shyla; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shyla ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #2,038 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sheila (239,422 babies since 1880), Shiela (4,408 babies since 1880), Sheyla (4,241 babies since 1880) and Shylah (1,779 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zhyla 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: Zhyla (24).
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 Shyla 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #2,038 | #1,271 |
| California | 8 | #2,462 | #2,462 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,730 | #2,347 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 2015 | 159 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 2011 | 252 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 2010 | 304 | #876 | — | — |
| 2009 | 352 | #806 | — | — |
| 2008 | 365 | #797 | — | — |
| 2007 | 352 | #818 | — | — |
| 2006 | 288 | #920 | — | — |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2002 | 179 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2001 | 201 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1999 | 213 | #973 | — | — |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1997 | 187 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1996 | 174 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1995 | 151 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1994 | 142 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1991 | 128 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1982 | 119 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,924 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,760 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,162 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,010 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,992 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,865 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,510 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,403 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,115 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,015 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,077 | — | — |
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).