Shian
Shian was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 425 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shian?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,974, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1998, the peak
Shian peaked in 1998, when 41 girls were given it, #3,102 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,974 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,463 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,683 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,504 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,797 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,033 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,209 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,645 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,662 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,167 | 16.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 16 | #6,439 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,102 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,695 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,614 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,480 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,413 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,905 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,261 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,355 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,707 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,134 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,086 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,473 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,853 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 425 Americans recorded as Shian, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shian, and how old are they?
An estimated 418 Americans named Shian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 23 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 619 people named Shian (489 women and girls, 130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Shian rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Shian?
Shian is a less common spelling of Shyann: SSA has recorded 425 Shian and 6,316 Shyann since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,610 babies since 1880, Shian is the fourth most given (4.4% 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 Shian
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 Shian and names like it
- Compare Shian and ShyannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShian peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shian since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Shian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.