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Shyane

Gender
Girl
Say it
shy-AN
Origin
Native American

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

What does Shyane mean?

Native American: spelling of Shyanne, itself a variant of Cheyenne, from a Dakota name for the Cheyenne people

Cheyenne is the name of a Great Plains Native American nation and of Wyoming's capital city.

Meaning borrowed from Shyanne. More on Wiktionary.

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

Shyane is a girls' name.

How popular is Shyane 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 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Shyane in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 26 in 20012013
Shyane in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20136#14,577
20120–
20116#14,816
20100–
20097#13,698
200810#10,802
200718#7,088
200613#8,711
200514#7,886
200415#7,386
200318#6,294
200219#5,892
200126#4,559
200013#7,574
199924#4,571
199821#4,951
199719#5,224
199622#4,578
199517#5,434
199419#5,011
199311#7,491
19928#9,483
199110#7,980

Names like Shyane

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

Names related to Shyane

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