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Shaylea

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHAY-lee-uh
Origin
Modern

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

Where does Shaylea come from?

Modern: modern blend of Shay and Lea

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

Shaylea is a girls' name.

How popular is Shaylea in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Shaylea in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 24 in 20012017
Shaylea in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20175#15,898
20160–
20150–
20145#16,507
20138#11,964
20129#11,251
20117#13,339
201014#8,267
20097#13,698
20087#13,827
200715#8,094
200614#8,234
200516#7,133
200422#5,551
200323#5,230
20029#10,240
200124#4,829
200015#6,802
199919#5,418
19987#11,132
19978#9,797
199617#5,526
19956#11,778
19948#9,580
19937#10,581
199215#6,001
19918#9,328
19907#10,187
19898#8,755
19887#9,239

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