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Shyanne vs Shylee

American parents have registered 9,442 Shyannes since 1880, against 811 Shylees. Shyanne is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Shyanne 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

Shyanne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Shyanne had 80 and Shylee had 24.

Side by side

  Shyanne Shylee
Total US births 9,442811
Most in one year 52552
Babies in 2025 296
Estimated living today 9,300800
Median age today 2317
Peak year 19992009
Best rank 495th girls3,189th girls
Rank in 2025 4,661st13,208th
First recorded 19741990
Girls / boys 9,442 / 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 Shyannes alive today are over 23; half the Shylees are over 17. That is 6 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: Shyanne and Shylee.