Shayla
Shayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 111 births. Its best rank was 268th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19991,187 births
- Best rank
- #268in 1999
- Since 1950
- 30,817people given the name
The story in the numbers
30,817 girls have been named Shayla in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 1,187 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Shayla was the 268th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Shayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keyonnapeak 1995
- Shalynnpeak 1995
- Karahpeak 2000
- Vanesapeak 2002
- Yajairapeak 2005
- Roshnipeak 1998
- Brookepeak 1996
- Brennapeak 1995
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.