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Shyanne vs Shyla

American parents have registered 9,442 Shyannes since 1880, against 8,026 Shylas. But in 2025 it was Shyla that was commoner, 79 babies to 29.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyanne against Shyla, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyanne Shyla

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 75 years in which either name was published, Shyla for 58 years and Shyanne for 17 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Shyanne Shyla
Total US births 9,4428,026
Most in one year 525365
Babies in 2025 2979
Estimated living today 9,3007,900
Median age today 2320
Peak year 19992008
Best rank 495th girls797th girls
Rank in 2025 4,661st2,298th
First recorded 19741942
Girls / boys 9,442 / 08,026 / 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 Shyannes alive today are over 23; half the Shylas are over 20. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Shyanne Shyla
England and Wales 257589

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: Shyanne and Shyla.