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Shaylee

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHAY-lee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#3,167 for girls

Shaylee is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,167th for girls in the US (50 babies).

Where does Shaylee come from?

Modern: blend of Shay and Lee

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

Shaylee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 50 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shaylee in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 9 girls.

Half of all the girls named Shaylee in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 9 in 20042023
Shaylee in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20231#7,582
20220–
20210–
20200–
20194#4,904
20180–
20174#4,967
20165#4,290
20154#4,951
20145#4,187
20135#4,267
20123#6,108
20114#4,980
20106#3,715
20097#3,201
20087#3,203
20071#7,017
20066#3,280
20055#3,543
20049#2,226
20035#3,233
20025#3,047
20013#4,156
20004#3,399
19990–
19984#3,310

How popular is Shaylee in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,167th among girls
Babies in 2025
50 about 1 in 32,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 47% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 50 girls in the US were named Shaylee, making it the 3,167th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,908th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 356 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.

2025 had fewer girls named Shaylee than any year since 1988.

Half of all the girls named Shaylee in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 101 girls in the US were given Shaylee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,677, up from #3,167 for this spelling alone.

1972Busiest: 356 in 20072025
Shaylee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202550#3,167
202457#2,889
202359#2,852
202252#3,123
202173#2,440
2020100#1,908
201999#1,961
2018115#1,774
2017129#1,665
2016127#1,684
2015171#1,382
2014158#1,436
2013199#1,203
2012228#1,086
2011214#1,144
2010267#960
2009302#902
2008284#951
2007356#803
2006347#789
2005299#845
2004334#773
2003327#758
2002301#780
2001289#813
2000270#830
1999250#860
1998262#812
1997216#921
1996177#1,044
1995130#1,283
1994124#1,343
1993112#1,436
1992108#1,459
1991101#1,531
199098#1,553
198966#1,938
198836#2,862
198734#2,850
198638#2,563
198516#4,633
198419#3,989
198312#5,456
198213#5,207
19819#6,802
19806#9,093
19790–
19780–
19770–
19768#6,609
19750–
19745#8,773
19730–
19725#8,290

Nicknames for Shaylee

Names like Shaylee

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

Other spellings of Shaylee

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