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Shaylen

The girl's name Shaylen has been in the national records since 1984, with 613 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 610 Shaylens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shaylen boys named Shaylen

By the numbers

Total US births
613
Estimated living today
610
Median age today
20
Peak year
2002
Best rank
3,461st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1984
Girls / boys
581 / 32

How old the living Shaylens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 613 babies given the name since 1984, about 610 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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.

Where Shaylen is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2002

The most popular girls’ names the year Shaylen peaked:

All the names of 2002

Shaylen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Shaylen 42 2,892nd

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.

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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.