Shayan
Shayan was given to 67 boys in 2025, #2,163 among boys’ names; 2,354 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Shayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shayan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shayan is “a male given name (of Persian origin)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shayan?
#2,163 among boys’ names, 2025
Shayan fell from #1,974 in 2015 to #2,163 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 38.6 to 39.2 per million.
94 babies in 2024, the peak
Shayan peaked in 2024, when 94 boys were given it, #1,764 among boys’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,163 | 39.2 |
| 2024 | 94 | #1,764 | 54.6 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,891 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,888 | 48.1 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,036 | 41.7 |
| 2020 | 86 | #1,775 | 49.8 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,014 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,117 | 36.9 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,234 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,162 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,974 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 78 | #1,878 | 40.6 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,007 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,149 | 33.2 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,311 | 29.5 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,316 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,936 | 37.3 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,154 | 30.9 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,158 | 30.4 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,057 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,909 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,226 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,976 | 29.9 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,962 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,972 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,867 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,665 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,006 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,767 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 52 | #1,777 | 27.5 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,746 | 26.8 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,765 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,038 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,032 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,214 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,681 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,066 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,052 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,690 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,410 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,162 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,103 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,532 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,354 Americans recorded as Shayan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 67 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shayan, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,354 Americans ever recorded as Shayan. The median Shayan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,532 people named Shayan (165 women and girls, 2,367 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,862 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 985 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 966 |
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 Shayan born?
The states with the most babies named Shayan are New York, California and Michigan, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #909 | 1.9× |
| California | 11 | #1,567 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 7 | #985 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,228 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,444 | 0.2× |
Where Shayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shayan is most over-represented in New York: since 1982 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Shayan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,531 babies since 1880, Shayan is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 237 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
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 Shayan
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 Shayan and names like it
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Shayan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shayan alive today were born 1997-2012.
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