Shaquan
Shaquan was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,120 among boys’ names; 2,664 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Shaquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaquan?
#7,120 among boys’ names, 2025
Shaquan fell from #5,699 in 2015 to #7,120 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.0 per million.
302 babies in 1994, the peak
Shaquan peaked in 1994, when 302 babies were given it (244 boys, #662 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #7,120 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,920 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #7,228 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 23 | #4,545 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 14 | #6,288 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,615 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 13 | #6,716 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,282 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,608 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 11 | #7,524 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 16 | #5,699 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 15 | #5,946 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 18 | #5,135 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 14 | #6,251 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 20 | #4,796 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 18 | #5,210 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 15 | #6,036 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 26 | #4,016 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 30 | #3,577 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 24 | #4,078 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 21 | #4,302 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 32 | #3,141 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 43 | #2,459 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 44 | #2,360 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,234 | 61 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,047 | 86 | #1,442 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,704 | 81 | #1,443 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,961 | 116 | #1,108 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,375 | 143 | #944 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,917 | 136 | #951 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,068 | 173 | #812 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,285 | 244 | #662 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,517 | 141 | #906 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,814 | 103 | #1,085 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,180 | 83 | #1,218 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,605 | 69 | #1,345 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,790 | 35 | #2,056 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,265 | 40 | #1,760 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,706 | 28 | #2,162 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,692 | 18 | #2,869 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,421 | 23 | #2,347 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,164 | 18 | #2,688 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,757 | 21 | #2,397 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,785 | 8 | #4,927 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,922 | 13 | #3,382 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,843 | 7 | #5,428 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,801 | 6 | #5,939 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,891 | 12 | #3,370 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,030 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,955 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,832 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shaquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,664 Americans recorded as Shaquan, 20% are girls and 80% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaquan, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,664 Americans ever recorded as Shaquan. The median Shaquan alive today is 31 years old; half are between 27 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,900 people named Shaquan (413 women and girls, 1,487 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 814 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 174 |
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 Shaquan born?
The states with the most babies named Shaquan are New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 581 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| New Jersey | 265 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| North Carolina | 137 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 128 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 124 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| South Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shaquan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaquan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 3.4 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 Shaquan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,854 babies since 1880, Shaquan is the most given (93% of them).
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 Shaquan
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 Shaquan and names like it
- Compare Shaquan and ShaquonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaquan peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaquan since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Shaquan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaquan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.