Shan — #9084 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shan

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,224 babies named Shan between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shan currently holds the #9084 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 73 babies received it in a single year. Shan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 864 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shan performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 540 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Shan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 209 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shan in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,224 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.