girls:
5 births since 2004
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
75 births since 2002
#4511 (2nd percentile)
overall:
80 births since 2002
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Shailen is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,511 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 2002. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Shailen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Shailen is available in 11 out of the 18 years between 2002 and 2019 (10 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shailen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shailen reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #868) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Shailen reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shailen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shailen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.6% confident that Shailen is pronounced as SHAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAY-lihn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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