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Shyanna vs Shylee

American parents have registered 1,725 Shyannas since 1880, against 811 Shylees. But in 2025 it was Shylee that was commoner, 6 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyanna against Shylee, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyanna Shylee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 44 years in which either name was published, Shyanna for 32 years and Shylee for 12 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Shyanna Shylee
Total US births 1,725811
Most in one year 9652
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 1,700800
Median age today 2317
Peak year 20012009
Best rank 1,833rd girls3,189th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19811990
Girls / boys 1,725 / 0811 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shyannas alive today are over 23; half the Shylees are over 17. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shyanna and Shylee.