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Shalaya

About 595 American babies have been named Shalaya since 1980, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 590 Shalayas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shalaya

By the numbers

Total US births
595
Estimated living today
590
Median age today
22
Peak year
2001
Best rank
4,321st
Rank in 2025
14,942nd
First recorded
1980

How old the living Shalayas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 595 babies given the name since 1980, about 590 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 2001

The most popular girls’ names the year Shalaya peaked:

All the names of 2001

Related names

Shalaya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.