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Shayann

Gender
Girl
Say it
shay-AN
Origin
Modern

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

Where does Shayann come from?

Modern: modern coinage, either Shay plus Ann or a respelling of Cheyenne

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

Shayann is a girls' name.

How popular is Shayann in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2005, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Shayann in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 15 in 20052015
Shayann in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20155#16,413
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20105#16,985
20090–
20080–
20070–
20068#12,415
200515#7,495
20048#11,617
200312#8,500
20028#11,102
20016#13,514
20008#10,738
19998#10,338
199813#7,099
19977#10,831
19968#9,576
199511#7,509
199410#8,116
19939#8,712
19929#8,726
19917#10,263

Names like Shayann

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Shayann: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shayann, updated 20 October 2026.