Shaan
Shaan was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,223 among boys’ names; 2,507 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Shaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaan?
#2,223 among boys’ names, 2025
Shaan fell from #1,728 in 2015 to #2,223 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 47.0 to 37.5 per million.
113 babies in 2009, the peak
Shaan peaked in 2009, when 113 boys were given it, #1,481 among boys’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,223 | 37.5 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,093 | 41.8 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,950 | 46.8 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,185 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,698 | 55.4 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,091 | 39.4 |
| 2019 | 87 | #1,785 | 48.5 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,011 | 40.2 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,893 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,601 | 53.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 90 | #1,728 | 47.0 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,956 | 38.5 |
| 2013 | 81 | #1,790 | 42.8 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,594 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,522 | 55.3 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,664 | 49.0 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,481 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 100 | #1,592 | 49.0 |
| 2007 | 93 | #1,657 | 44.8 |
| 2006 | 84 | #1,696 | 40.9 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,828 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 84 | #1,577 | 42.3 |
| 2003 | 62 | #1,899 | 31.4 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,581 | 40.2 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,236 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,914 | 28.0 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,921 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,492 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,046 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,797 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,483 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,189 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,675 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,726 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,602 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,314 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,588 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,320 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,187 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,103 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,053 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,890 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,833 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,268 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,431 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,117 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,269 | 4.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,952 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,559 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,618 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,167 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaan, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,507 Americans ever recorded as Shaan. The median Shaan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,150 people named Shaan (55 women and girls, 2,095 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,048 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 37 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shaan born?
The states with the most babies named Shaan are California, New Jersey and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,493 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #644 | 3.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,000 | 1.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,727 | 1.2× |
Where Shaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,531 babies since 1880, Shaan is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 237 babies (27%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaan and names like it
- Compare Shaan and ShaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaan peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Shaan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.