Shaquan — #12695 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shaquan

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,115 babies named Shaquan between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shaquan currently holds the #12695 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 244 babies received it in a single year. Shaquan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 537 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaquan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,289 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shaquan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 509 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaquan in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaquan 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 2,115 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.