Shayla
The girl's name Shayla has been in the national records since 1950, with 30,950 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,777th. About 30,000 Shaylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shayla boys named Shayla
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 30,950
- Estimated living today
- 30,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 267th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,777th
- First recorded
- 1950
- Girls / boys
- 30,933 / 17
How old the living Shaylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 30,950 babies given the name since 1950, about 30,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 6,400 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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.
Notable Shaylas
- Shayla LaVeaux (born 1969)American pornographic actress
People named Shayla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shayla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shayla is most concentrated in Utah (2.4×), Idaho (2.3×), Hawaii (2.2×), Nevada (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular girls’ names the year Shayla peaked:
Shayla elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Shayla | 967 | 593rd |
| France girls | Shayla | 50 | 6,144th |
| Ireland girls | Shayla | 18 | 660th |
| Scotland girls | Shayla | 3 | 653rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Shayla lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 250 women called Shayla were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Shayla | 5 | 0.121 | 746 |
| Melilla | Shayla | 5 | 0.115 | 817 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Shayla | 25 | 0.045 | 1,667 |
| Palmas, Las | Shayla | 17 | 0.029 | 2,567 |
| Cantabria | Shayla | 9 | 0.029 | 1,432 |
| León | Shayla | 6 | 0.026 | 1,645 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Shayla 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.