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Shayana

Gender
Girl
Say it
shay-AN-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Shayana is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

Where does Shayana come from?

Modern: modern coinage, Shay- plus the -ana ending

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

Shayana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shayana in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 4 girls.

2006Busiest: 4 in 20072023
Shayana in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20232#7,489
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20174#4,967
20160–
20153#5,983
20143#5,920
20133#6,003
20120–
20110–
20104#4,931
20090–
20083#5,772
20074#4,494
20063#5,259

How popular is Shayana in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,131st among girls
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Shayana, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 1989.

2025 had the most girls named Shayana of any year since it first appeared, in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Shayana in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 15 in 20252025
Shayana in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
20240–
20230–
20220–
20215#15,246
20208#11,085
20190–
20180–
201710#9,939
20165#16,210
20157#13,001
20147#13,063
20139#10,995
20120–
20115#16,756
201010#10,446
200911#9,971
20089#11,594
200711#10,125
20068#12,415
200510#10,123
200413#8,254
200311#9,043
200214#7,438
20017#12,049
200011#8,527
19999#9,472
19988#10,116
199713#6,839
199610#8,127
199511#7,509
19948#9,580
19936#11,773
19926#11,730
19917#10,263
19905#12,952
19898#8,755

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Shayana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shayana, updated 20 October 2026.