girls:
2k births since 1966
#3830 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1966
#5780 (25th percentile)
The name Shalyn is the #5,780 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,991 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 25.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,830 (33.0% percentile) for all time with 1,991 births since 1966.
Shalyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (first recorded for girls in 1966). Birth data for Shalyn is available in 51 out of the 53 years between 1966 and 2018. 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.
For girls, Shalyn reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 10.4% percentile (ranked #794) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shalyn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Shalyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Shalyn is pronounced as SHAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-LIHN, at 20.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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