Shawon — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shawon

The Social Security Administration has registered 165 babies named Shawon between 1975 and 2005, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shawon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Shawon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 40 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawon performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shawon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shawon in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawon 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 165 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.