Shon
Shon was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,810 among boys’ names; 5,530 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,020 Americans named Shon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 35 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shon?
#8,810 among boys’ names, 2025
Shon fell from #5,701 in 2015 to #8,810 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 5.3 per million.
329 babies in 1971, the peak
Shon peaked in 1971, when 329 babies were given it (301 boys, #470 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,810 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,198 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,457 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,988 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,028 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,194 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,933 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,718 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,006 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,701 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,239 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,612 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,972 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,621 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,296 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,421 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 47 | #2,241 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,209 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,246 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,874 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,118 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,768 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,495 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,409 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,291 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,184 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 82 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 106 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 156 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 146 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 213 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 257 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 256 | #487 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 253 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 301 | #470 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 281 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 242 | #498 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 196 | #539 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 139 | #636 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 92 | #764 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 82 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,003 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,191 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,617 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 34 | #1,384 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 30 | #1,478 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,658 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,530 Americans recorded as Shon, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Shon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shon, and how old are they?
5,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 5,530 Americans ever recorded as Shon. The median Shon alive today is 50 years old; half are between 35 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 4,802 people named Shon (481 women and girls, 4,321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,079 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 284 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,770 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 637 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
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 Shon born?
The states with the most babies named Shon are California, Texas and Ohio, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 619 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 301 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 177 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 101 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 92 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 89 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Shon 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,777 babies since 1880, Shon is the most given (96% 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 Shon
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 Shon and names like it
- Compare Shon and ShonnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShon peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shon since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Shon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.