Shayna
Shayna is a girl's name that peaked in 1991, when it was the 380th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,458th. About 16,000 Shaynas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shayna boys named Shayna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,272
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 380th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,458th
- First recorded
- 1957
- Girls / boys
- 16,267 / 5
How old the living Shaynas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,272 babies given the name since 1957, about 16,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 17 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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 the name comes from
Origin Yiddish
a feminine inflection of שיין (“beautiful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Shaynas
- Shayna Baszler (born 1980)American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
- Shayna Jack (born 1998)Australian swimmer
People named Shayna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shayna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shayna is most concentrated in Hawaii (6.1×), New Jersey (2.0×), Florida (2.0×), Rhode Island (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Shayna peaked:
Shayna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Shayna | 3,370 | 217th |
| England and Wales girls | Shayna | 419 | 987th |
| Belgium girls | Shayna | 114 | 458th |
| Ireland girls | Shayna | 41 | 488th |
| Scotland girls | Shayna | 3 | 722nd |
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.
Shayna: rank by region
In 2016, Shayna was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Shayna | 437 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Shayna 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.