girl's name

Shaylynn

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 8
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 2,660

Shaylynn is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2009, when 120 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 255,037 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1974.

Shaylynn over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Shaylynn by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 31
1980s 147
1990s 557
2000s 887
2010s 547
2020s (to 2025) 149

How popular is Shaylynn?

In 2025, Shaylynn was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Shaylynn is used

Canada #3,600 5 in 2021
United States #8,006 13 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Shaylynn is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Shay-Lynn Shay-Lynn is Shaylynn written with a hyphen, recorded mostly in Canada. 41

Names that peaked alongside Shaylynn

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Shaylynn also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Shaylynn over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Shaylynn

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Shaylynn — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Shaylynn

How popular is the name Shaylynn?

In 2025, Shaylynn was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Shaylynn a girl's or a boy's name?

Shaylynn is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Shaylynn most popular?

Shaylynn peaked in 2009, when 120 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Shaylynn a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Shaylynn currently ranks #8,006 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.