Shaelyn
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 177 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,494since 1976
Shaelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 |
| 2016 | #2,829 | 60 |
| 2015 | #2,340 | 79 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 |
| 2013 | #2,020 | 96 |
| 2012 | #2,016 | 96 |
| 2011 | #1,874 | 107 |
| 2010 | #1,521 | 147 |
| 2009 | #1,432 | 163 |
| 2008 | #1,554 | 148 |
| 2007 | #1,468 | 159 |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 |
| 2005 | #1,451 | 146 |
| 2004 | #1,480 | 136 |
| 2003 | #1,297 | 160 |
| 2002 | #1,328 | 146 |
| 2001 | #1,378 | 138 |
| 2000 | #1,149 | 177 |
| 1999 | #1,222 | 155 |
| 1998 | #1,176 | 159 |
| 1997 | #1,466 | 112 |
| 1996 | #1,503 | 107 |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 1994 | #1,929 | 73 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 |
| 1991 | #3,097 | 36 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
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| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shaelyn! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shaelyn
- 363 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #6,325)
- 2,827 spots since 2020 (#3,498 → #6,325)
- 3,985 spots since 2015 (#2,340 → #6,325)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2000 at #1,149 (177 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,260 girls born in 2000 were named Shaelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.9% of all girls named Shaelyn (1,534) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #5,427 (1979) | #7,356 |
| 1980s | 133 | #3,331 (1987) | #5,038 |
| 1990s | 845 | #1,176 (1998) | #2,056 |
| 2000s | 1,534 | #1,149 (2000) | #1,394 |
| 2010s | 791 | #1,521 (2010) | #2,548 |
| 2020s | 174 | #3,491 (2021) | #4,949 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shaelyn in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
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1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 11,420 of them was named Shaelyn, which outranked 93.0% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,291Nariah161
- #1,291Saniyah161
- #1,291Shianne161
- #1,297Shaelyn160
- #1,297Breanne160
- #1,297Chyna160
- #1,297Georgina160
- #1,305Annmarie159
- #1,305Jayna159
- #1,305Nelly159
Tied with 7 names at #1,297; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.