Shin — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shin

The Social Security Administration has registered 97 babies named Shin between 1978 and 2019, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shin currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Shin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 37 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shin shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shin 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 97 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.