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Shyanna vs Shyra

American parents have registered 1,725 Shyannas since 1880, against 857 Shyras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Shyanna Shyra

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 58 years in which either name was published, Shyanna for 30 years and Shyra for 28 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Shyanna Shyra
Total US births 1,725857
Most in one year 9647
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,700840
Median age today 2331
Peak year 20011994
Best rank 1,833rd girls2,627th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19811962
Girls / boys 1,725 / 0857 / 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 Shyras alive today are over 31; half the Shyannas are over 23. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Shyanna Shyra
England and Wales 2517

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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