Shiann
Shiann was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 2,008 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Shiann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shiann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shiann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,402, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
135 babies in 1998, the peak
Shiann peaked in 1998, when 135 girls were given it, #1,317 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,402 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,327 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,293 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,367 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,485 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,735 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,558 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,435 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,296 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,081 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | #3,829 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,880 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,084 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,684 | 36.5 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,195 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,576 | 37.3 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,698 | 34.1 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,199 | 44.1 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,923 | 52.0 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,838 | 54.5 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,521 | 68.3 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,697 | 57.3 |
| 1999 | 125 | #1,412 | 70.5 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,317 | 76.4 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,338 | 74.1 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,380 | 69.6 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,722 | 48.3 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,585 | 53.8 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,666 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,065 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,698 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,501 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,501 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,271 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,270 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,153 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,214 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,036 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,772 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,061 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,874 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,013 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,854 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,029 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,880 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shiann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shiann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shiann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shiann, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,008 Americans ever recorded as Shiann. The median Shiann alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,584 people named Shiann (1,574 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,976 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 506 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 117 |
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 Shiann born?
The states with the most babies named Shiann are Ohio, New York and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 128 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 101 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 93 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 70 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 59 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 36 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Shiann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shiann is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1975 it was given 1.5 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 girls’ 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 Shiann 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,610 babies since 1880, Shiann is the second most given (21% 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 Shiann
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 Shiann and names like it
- Compare Shiann and ShyannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShiann peaked in 1998.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shiann since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Shiann.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shiann alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.