Shaune
Shaune was last recorded in 2009, when 9 babies were given it; 779 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaune by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaune?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,880, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1969, the peak
Shaune peaked in 1969, when 60 babies were given it (16 boys, #2,205 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | under 5 | 9 | #8,880 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #8,069 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #11,239 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,133 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,453 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 9 | #7,008 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #11,038 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,486 | 5 | #10,297 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,117 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,158 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | under 5 | 11 | #5,291 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,518 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,022 | 13 | #4,436 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,674 | 9 | #5,730 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,752 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,530 | 6 | #7,106 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 10 | #4,521 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #5,251 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,865 | 13 | #3,567 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,857 | 13 | #3,421 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,032 | 14 | #3,203 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 11 | #3,911 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 17 | #2,762 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 24 | #2,206 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,701 | 14 | #3,143 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,887 | 27 | #1,906 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,441 | 19 | #2,444 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,973 | 12 | #3,232 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,551 | 13 | #3,053 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,898 | 9 | #3,785 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,294 | 8 | #3,997 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,136 | 17 | #2,311 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,228 | 12 | #2,948 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,690 | 14 | #2,609 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,889 | 16 | #2,205 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,137 | 16 | #2,095 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,651 | 18 | #1,893 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,797 | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,158 | 6 | #3,865 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,909 | 11 | #2,638 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,476 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,759 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,234 | 7 | #3,613 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,613 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,573 | 5 | #4,491 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,895 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,851 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,732 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,387 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,984 | 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 Shaune a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 779 Americans recorded as Shaune, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaune: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaune, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Shaune and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 42 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 749 people named Shaune (377 women and girls, 372 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 211,881 babies since 1880, Shaune is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 484 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaune (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shaune
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Britt | 7,626 |
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 Shaune and names like it
- Compare Shaune and ShaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sShaune peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaune since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Shaune.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shaune alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.