girls:
30.7k births since 1950
#802 (86th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 1985
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
30.7k births since 1950
#1447 (81st percentile)
The name Shayla is the #1,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,718 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 81.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #802 (86.0% percentile) for all time with 30,701 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1985.
Shayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Shayla is available in 70 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (70 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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 Shayla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shayla reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 70.8% percentile (ranked #259) with 610 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 610 births per million (ranked 70.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shayla ranks #822 for girls (13.2% percentile) with 74 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shayla reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shayla".
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