Shayna
Feminine · “beautiful”
Shayna is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 16,267 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Shayna is beautiful in Yiddish — sheyn, from the German schön — and shayna maidel is an ordinary phrase for a pretty girl.
How old is the name Shayna?
Shayna first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Shayna alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 16,000 people named Shayna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shayna most popular?
Shayna peaked in 1991, reaching #380 nationally. Today it ranks #2458, 2,078 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sheyn to Shayna
The story of Shayna
Shayna maidel — a pretty girl — is a stock Yiddish phrase, and Yiddish naming used the adjective directly. The word is the same as the German schön and a relative of the English 'sheen'. Shayna is current in Jewish communities and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
beautiful
From the Yiddish sheyn, 'beautiful', cognate with the German schön and related to the English 'sheen'. Shayna is the feminine adjective used as a name. The Yiddish is ordinary vocabulary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- sheyn
- shayna
- Shayna
Related forms: שיינא · Shaina · Schön
Pronouncing Shayna
SHAY-nah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Yiddish says it the same way.
Nicknames for Shayna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 1991676 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #380reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +7.5%72 in 2025, from 67
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shayna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שיינא in Yiddish — transliteration
- Shaina in English — spelling variant
- Schön in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, California.
Shaynas among us
people named Shayna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was named Shayna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Shayna
- #2458
- Shayna on the 2025 chart
- #813
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Shayna went to 72 girls in 2025, but Shaina is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 147, which makes it the 813th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,645 places above the chart.
- Shaina75
- Shayna72
About 1 girl in 10,934 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,323 for Shayna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ingrid test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shayna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ingrid climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ingrid's path sketches the road Shayna is walking now.
Shayna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Shayna is headed
Shayna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Shayna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shayna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the German schön and the English 'sheen' are relatives is a genuinely good etymology.
- The beautiful meaning is transparent and needs no explanation.
- Shay is available as a short form with a real record.
- It reads as specifically Ashkenazi Jewish.
- Shaina and Shayna are both in circulation.
- It is an ordinary adjective in Yiddish.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shaynas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 16,000 people named Shayna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Shayna?
- Shayna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Shaina is the more common one — 75 births in 2025 against 72 for Shayna.
- How popular is the name Shayna in 2025?
- Shayna ranks #2458 among US girl names in 2025, with 72 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shayna?
- About 1 in every 22,323 US girls born in 2025 was named Shayna — 72 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shayna with classmates?
- Shayna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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