Shawn — #637 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 306,134 babies named Shawn between 1931 and 2024, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shawn currently holds the #637 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 12,825 babies received it in a single year. Shawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 33,040 additional births since 1932.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawn performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 105,794 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Shawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 26,457 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawn in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawn 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 306,134 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.