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Shyenne

Gender
Girl
Say it
shy-EN
Origin
Native American

Shyenne is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “people of alien speech”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Shyenne mean?

Native American: respelling of Cheyenne, from the Dakota name for the Cheyenne people

“people of alien speech”

A respelling of Cheyenne, the name of a Plains Indian nation and of the capital of Wyoming.

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

Shyenne is a girls' name.

How popular is Shyenne in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

Half of all the girls named Shyenne in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1987Busiest: 42 in 19962018
Shyenne in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20185#15,677
20170–
20160–
201510#10,143
201414#8,050
20139#10,995
201216#7,452
201112#9,146
201014#8,267
200917#7,338
200827#5,277
200727#5,227
200631#4,575
200521#5,795
200431#4,383
200324#5,087
200220#5,669
200126#4,559
200031#3,978
199935#3,506
199829#3,911
199732#3,544
199642#2,845
199535#3,215
199429#3,699
199318#5,200
19927#10,471
199118#5,175
19908#9,241
19890–
19880–
19875#11,320

Names like Shyenne

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