Shon — #6875 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shon

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,163 babies named Shon between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shon currently holds the #6875 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 301 babies received it in a single year. Shon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 358 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shon performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,050 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 619 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shon in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shon 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 5,163 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.