girls:
1.3k births since 1975
#4454 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1975
#6473 (16th percentile)
The name Shealyn is the #6,473 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,268 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 16.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,454 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,268 births since 1975.
Shealyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975). Birth data for Shealyn is available in 44 out of the 48 years between 1975 and 2022. 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, Shealyn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #837) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shealyn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shealyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.2% confident that Shealyn is pronounced as SHEE-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEE-luhn, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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