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Shyanna vs Shylo

American parents have registered 1,725 Shyannas since 1880, against 897 Shylos. But in 2025 it was Shylo that was commoner, 40 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyanna against Shylo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyanna Shylo

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

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Shyanna for 29 years and Shylo for 27 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Shyanna Shylo
Total US births 1,725897
Most in one year 9640
Babies in 2025 under 540
Estimated living today 1,700880
Median age today 2321
Peak year 20012008
Best rank 1,833rd girls5,013th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,885th
First recorded 19811970
Girls / boys 1,725 / 0674 / 223

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 Shyannas alive today are over 23; half the Shylos are over 21. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Shyanna Shylo
England and Wales 2517

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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