How Many People Are Named Shaelyn?
people named Shaelyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 98,982 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,494 babies named Shaelyn in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
177 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Combination of SHAE and LYNN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shaelyn in English. Counting Shaelyn and these spellings together, about 5,529 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shaelyn in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shaelyn alive today is about 21 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 15 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shaelyn first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 2000, to 177 babies. In 2025, 18 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shaelyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,147, in 2000. In 2025 it ranked #6,515.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,515 |
| Best rank | #1,147 (2000) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,409 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shaelyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shaelyn were born in California than in any other state: about 271 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shaelyn was given 3.4 times as often in Utah, 2.1 times in Massachusetts and 2.1 times in Michigan.
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