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Shyann vs Shylee

American parents have registered 6,316 Shyanns since 1880, against 811 Shylees. Shyann is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyann against Shylee, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyann Shylee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Shyann has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Shyann had 13 and Shylee had 12.

Side by side

  Shyann Shylee
Total US births 6,316811
Most in one year 36352
Babies in 2025 76
Estimated living today 6,200800
Median age today 2217
Peak year 20012009
Best rank 685th girls3,189th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd13,208th
First recorded 19771990
Girls / boys 6,316 / 0811 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shyanns alive today are over 22; half the Shylees are over 17. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shyann and Shylee.