Shayna is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Shayna is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,731 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,730 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shayna.
Shayna is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Shayna - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 367 in 1991. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Shayna really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shayna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
79 babies were named Shayna in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,876,353 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Shayna ranked 2,083 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Shayna is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shayna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shayna, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Yoyo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shayna
Shayna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
Y
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
Y
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shayna sounds like this:
