Shavon
Shavon was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 4,266 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,110 Americans named Shavon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shavon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shavon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shavon is “a female given name from Irish.”
A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shavon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,282, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
368 babies in 1979, the peak
Shavon peaked in 1979, when 368 babies were given it (358 girls, #531 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | #12,282 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,600 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,567 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,463 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,832 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,821 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,248 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,042 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,522 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,351 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,562 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,362 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,681 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,565 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,719 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,260 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,880 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,768 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,869 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,773 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,556 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,038 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,548 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 79 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,529 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 113 | #1,432 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,284 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,136 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 137 | #1,105 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 140 | #1,078 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 178 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 152 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 200 | #793 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 194 | #816 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 246 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 299 | #616 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 358 | #531 | 0.22 |
| 1978 | 230 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,731 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,376 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,558 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,391 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,729 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,435 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,990 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,912 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,912 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,869 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shavon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,266 Americans recorded as Shavon, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shavon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shavon, and how old are they?
4,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,266 Americans ever recorded as Shavon. The median Shavon alive today is 41 years old; half are between 33 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 4,099 people named Shavon (3,769 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 529 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Shavon born?
The states with the most babies named Shavon are New York, Illinois and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 536 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 365 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 304 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 143 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 126 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 125 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 105 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 92 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 81 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Shavon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shavon is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Shavon 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 4,532 babies since 1880, Shavon is the most given (94% 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 Shavon
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 Shavon and names like it
- Compare Shavon and ShavonnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShavon peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shavon since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Shavon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shavon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shavon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.