Meaning not yet researched.
Shylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,857 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,857 in 2007; #5,535 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,535 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,857.
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Shylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,857 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 114 (2007).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Shylah, making it the 5,535th most common girls’ name of the year, down 259 places from #5,276 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 25 girls named Shylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,857, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 114. For comparison, it was #3,382 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shylah in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 14 babies. In all, 1,779 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 621 babies named Shylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US girls were named Shylah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shyla (8,026 babies since 1880), Sheyla (4,241 babies since 1880) and Sheilah (2,285 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 Shylah 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 | 23 | #5,535 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,642 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,616 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,689 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,984 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,547 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,216 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,452 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,523 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,732 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,483 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,051 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,909 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,159 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,936 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,695 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,706 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,571 | — | — |
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).