Shone — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shone

The Social Security Administration has registered 335 babies named Shone between 1967 and 2011, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shone currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Shone is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 51 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shone performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shone shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shone in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shone 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 335 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.