How Many People Are Named Shayna?

15,912

people named Shayna are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 21,479 people in the US has this name

Based on 16,272 babies named Shayna in Social Security records from 1957 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,847

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#999

See the top 100

Peak Year

1991

676 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Yiddish
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "beautiful" in Yiddish.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Shayna in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shayna alive today is about 30 years old, and 55% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 38 in 2025.

Under 30 7,057
44.4%
30 to 59 8,783
55.2%
60 and over 72
0.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shayna first appears in the records in 1957 and was given most often in 1991, to 676 babies. In 2025, 72 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1957 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Shayna has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #381, in 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,479.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,479
Best rank#381 (1991)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#449 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Shayna alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Shayna were born in California than in any other state: about 1,705 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shayna was given 6.7 times as often in Hawaii, 2.5 times in Rhode Island and 2 times in New Jersey.

California 1,705
New York 1,489
Florida 918
New Jersey 748
Texas 708
Pennsylvania 680
Michigan 625
Illinois 566
Ohio 528
Massachusetts 494
Georgia 297
Maryland 290
Washington 274
Indiana 262
Hawaii 251
Arizona 232
Minnesota 230
Virginia 228
Connecticut 212
Wisconsin 212
North Carolina 205
Tennessee 199
Colorado 186
Missouri 170
Oklahoma 158
Louisiana 135
Oregon 128
Kentucky 110
South Carolina 101
Rhode Island 95
Utah 86
Iowa 82
Alabama 80
Kansas 80
Arkansas 77
West Virginia 76
New Mexico 52
Nevada 50
Nebraska 42
New Hampshire 39
Montana 34
South Dakota 28
Idaho 25
Mississippi 19
District of Columbia 15
North Dakota 6
Vermont 5
Alaska 5
Wyoming 5

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