Shawan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shawan

The Social Security Administration has registered 236 babies named Shawan between 1965 and 1990, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Shawan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 59 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawan performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 148 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shawan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawan in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawan 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 236 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.