Shavaughn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shavaughn

The Social Security Administration has registered 174 babies named Shavaughn between 1977 and 2003, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shavaughn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Shavaughn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shavaughn performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shavaughn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shavaughn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shavaughn 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 174 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.