Meaning not yet researched.
Shaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,482 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,482 in 2009; #2,223 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,223 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,482.
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Shaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,482 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 113 (2009).
In 2025, 64 US boys were named Shaan, making it the 2,223rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 130 places from #2,093 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 72 boys named Shaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,482, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 113. For comparison, it was #1,728 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaan in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 2,507 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 882 babies named Shaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 787 US boys were named Shaan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shaan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #644 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shane (196,166 babies since 1880), Shaun (73,610 babies since 1880), Shayne (13,701 babies since 1880) and Shan (3,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shayaan, Shaiann and Shahaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shayaan (777), Shaiann (331), Shahaan (22), Shaeann (5), Shaiyan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 11 | #644 | #765 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,000 | #1,506 |
| California | 12 | #1,493 | #1,009 |
| New York | 6 | #1,727 | #1,146 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 64 | #2,223 |
| 2024 | — | — | 72 | #2,093 |
| 2023 | — | — | 80 | #1,950 |
| 2022 | — | — | 67 | #2,186 |
| 2021 | — | — | 97 | #1,698 |
| 2020 | — | — | 68 | #2,091 |
| 2019 | — | — | 87 | #1,785 |
| 2018 | — | — | 73 | #2,012 |
| 2017 | — | — | 77 | #1,893 |
| 2016 | — | — | 102 | #1,601 |
| 2015 | — | — | 90 | #1,728 |
| 2014 | — | — | 74 | #1,957 |
| 2013 | — | — | 81 | #1,791 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,594 |
| 2011 | — | — | 105 | #1,522 |
| 2010 | — | — | 94 | #1,664 |
| 2009 | — | — | 113 | #1,482 |
| 2008 | — | — | 100 | #1,592 |
| 2007 | — | — | 93 | #1,657 |
| 2006 | — | — | 84 | #1,696 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,832 |
| 2004 | — | — | 84 | #1,580 |
| 2003 | — | — | 62 | #1,902 |
| 2002 | — | — | 78 | #1,584 |
| 2001 | — | — | 46 | #2,240 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,918 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,925 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,495 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,051 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,803 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,488 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,195 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,681 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,732 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,609 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,321 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,594 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,325 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,194 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,106 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,056 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,893 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,835 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,270 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,433 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,119 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,271 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,954 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,561 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,620 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,169 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).