Shayna

Shayna: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “beautiful”
Origin: Yiddish
Say it: SHAY-nuh · 2 syllables
Used for: Girls

From Yiddish sheyne 'beautiful,' ultimately from German schön. Also spelled Shaina, Shayna, or Sheyna.

Hebrew names Names meaning beauty Classic names International names

How popular is Shayna?

202420.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Compare with another name

Babies named Shayna in 202467

2024 rank#2,603 girls

Peak year1991

Total US babies since 188016,195

Shayna is fading: recent use is about 53% of its level ten years before.

Names like Shayna

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Bailawhite · Yiddish
Faigybird · Yiddish
Raizyrose · Yiddish
Shainabeautiful · Yiddish
Goldagold · Yiddish

Shayna questions

What does the name Shayna mean?

Shayna means "beautiful". It comes from Yiddish. From Yiddish sheyne 'beautiful,' ultimately from German schön. Also spelled Shaina, Shayna, or Sheyna.

Is Shayna a boy or girl name?

Shayna is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Shayna?

67 US babies were named Shayna in 2024. Its peak year was 1991.

How do you pronounce Shayna?

Shayna is usually pronounced SHAY-nuh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.