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Shailee

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHAY-lee
Origin
Modern

Shailee is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Shailee come from?

Modern: modern American blend of Shai and Lee

Is Shailee a girl's or a boy's name?

Shailee is a girls' name.

How popular is Shailee in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 30 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Shailee in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 30 in 20002023
Shailee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20235#15,188
20220–
20217#12,201
202010#9,541
201910#9,730
20189#10,540
20176#14,120
201611#9,408
201515#7,610
201417#6,985
201322#5,831
201216#7,452
201113#8,610
201014#8,267
200916#7,676
200815#8,105
200725#5,523
200619#6,590
200511#9,447
200421#5,740
200321#5,581
200216#6,692
200113#7,717
200030#4,074
199920#5,213
199824#4,489
199720#5,006
199627#3,937
199513#6,636
199416#5,707
19938#9,552
199213#6,645
199110#7,980
19907#10,187

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shailee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shailee, updated 20 October 2026.