Shown — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shown

The Social Security Administration has registered 75 babies named Shown between 1968 and 1994, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shown currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Shown is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shown performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shown shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shown 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 75 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.