Shayna is a Yiddish name meaning "beautiful", from sheyn, and is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish name that was often paired with Hebrew names. Outside Jewish families it is also used as a spelling of Shaina or as a feminine of Shane, and it fit perfectly into the Shawna and Shanna fashion of the 1970s and 1980s. Shayna entered this century at its peak, number 578 in 2000, left the top 1000 in the 2000s and has drifted to number 1728 in 2015 and number 2479 in 2025 with 72 girls.