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Shylee

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHY-lee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Shylee is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Where does Shylee come from?

Modern: blend of Shy- and the -lee ending

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

Shylee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shylee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 47% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Shylee, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2009, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

2025 had fewer girls named Shylee than any year since 1995.

Half of all the girls named Shylee in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 52 in 20092025
Shylee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
202412#8,438
202310#9,611
20229#10,377
202118#6,409
202012#8,401
201917#6,694
201824#5,311
201716#7,088
201613#8,390
201523#5,651
201426#5,161
201329#4,753
201245#3,522
201146#3,451
201040#3,815
200952#3,188
200851#3,266
200747#3,481
200633#4,357
200525#5,109
200428#4,703
200332#4,105
200233#3,885
200119#5,817
200024#4,786
199919#5,418
199820#5,119
199719#5,224
199616#5,766
19956#11,778
199410#8,116
199310#8,045
19928#9,483
19918#9,328
19905#12,952

Names like Shylee

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

Names related to Shylee

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