Shiny

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Shiny by the numbers

Shiny was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 8 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Shiny

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shiny. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Shintooth; hebrew letter5 in the US (2017)
  • Shine26 in the US (2017)
  • Sunnybright or cheerful like the sun69 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Shaindybeautiful; a form of Shandee83 in the US (2017)
  • Shainabeautiful or lovely75 in the US (2017)
  • Shirasong70 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Shiny

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