Shylar

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

Shylar by the numbers

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

Its American peak was 6 babies in 1996, making it a 1990s name.

What we can tell you about Shylar

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 Shylar. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
  • Shyla110 in the US (2017)
  • Shylah39 in the US (2017)
  • Skylerscholar, learned one; modern respelling of Schuyler1,459 in the US (2017)
  • Shylohone sent; a form of Shiloh28 in the US (2017)
  • Saylor762 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Shylar

Names that are said the same way as Shylar, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Shylar

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