Shayna

Locally spelled שיינה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Shayna, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Rivka
• Yael
• Liora
• Elisheva
• Cheyenne

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Shayna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Shãynã, Shàyna, Shâyna, Shaÿna, Shãynå

• Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Canada

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written Shanaya, শায়না

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Shayna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Jewish: Yiddish name meaning ‘beautiful’ (modern German schön ). See also BEILE and YAFFA . Variant: Sheine .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Shana Festeb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director and screenwriter
• Shayna Baszlerb. 1980USAmerican mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• Shayna Jackb. 1998AUAustralian swimmer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

56 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Shayna mean, and where does it come from?

2 Modern name, either taken from a Yiddish name derived from German Schén(e) ‘beautiful’, or else a variant of Sheena. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.

Is Shayna a male or female name?

Shayna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).

What are other forms of the name Shayna?

In the etymology graph, Shaina, Sheine and Shaynah are forms of the same name in other languages; Shaindel is a recorded short or pet form.

Which countries have the most people named Shayna?

In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Shayna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shayna. After it come India, France, Canada and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Shayna most common?

Shayna is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Shayna?

In the United States, the national register counted 14,154 people named Shayna in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.