# Shayla (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shayla/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Shaylene |
| US babies named this | 30,950 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17 / 30,933 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 967, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 577 | 509 |
| 2012 | 473 | 606 |
| 2013 | 429 | 667 |
| 2014 | 375 | 749 |
| 2015 | 354 | 797 |
| 2016 | 270 | 986 |
| 2017 | 242 | 1,064 |
| 2018 | 218 | 1,128 |
| 2019 | 195 | 1,202 |
| 2020 | 197 | 1,181 |
| 2021 | 160 | 1,378 |
| 2022 | 140 | 1,538 |
| 2023 | 130 | 1,611 |
| 2024 | 112 | 1,807 |
| 2025 | 113 | 1,793 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | 7,424 |
| 1989 | 5 | 9,024 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,780 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 635 |
| 2012 | 49 | 789 |
| 2013 | 42 | 882 |
| 2014 | 43 | 877 |
| 2015 | 51 | 760 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,211 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,733 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,343 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,703 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,449 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Shayla

- Shayla LaVeaux, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.