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Shawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 399 in 2025. Its best rank was #27 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #27 in 1973; #682 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Shawn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#682 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #27.
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Shawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 399 boys in 2025. Peak: #27 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 12,825 (1971).
In 2025, 399 US boys were named Shawn, making it the 682nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 44 places from #638 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 440 boys named Shawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #27, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 12,825, in 1971. For comparison, it was #352 in 2015 and #508 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shawn in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 6 babies. In all, 339,597 US babies have been given the name, 9.7% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 117,152 babies named Shawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,359 US boys were named Shawn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 946. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,281 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shawn ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #199 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shawne (1,239 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shawnn and Shauwn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Shaun.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shawnn (151), Shauwn (6).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 6 | #199 | #230 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #425 | #203 |
| Maryland | 12 | #432 | #221 |
| Michigan | 20 | #442 | #286 |
| Ohio | 21 | #511 | #275 |
| Kansas | 7 | #513 | #505 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #517 | #317 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #545 | #350 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #546 | #441 |
| Indiana | 12 | #575 | #322 |
| New York | 24 | #635 | #278 |
| Washington | 11 | #635 | #461 |
| Florida | 26 | #646 | #373 |
| Virginia | 11 | #661 | #331 |
| California | 40 | #698 | #394 |
| Colorado | 7 | #746 | #309 |
| Georgia | 13 | #753 | #440 |
| Arizona | 8 | #772 | #555 |
| Texas | 36 | #773 | #445 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #775 | #343 |
| Missouri | 7 | #777 | #368 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #873 | #312 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #899 | #269 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,001 | #387 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,126 | #324 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,164 | #419 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,274 | 399 | #682 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,542 | 440 | #638 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,038 | 438 | #633 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,972 | 523 | #568 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,000 | 587 | #501 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,452 | 659 | #452 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,036 | 723 | #426 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,062 | 814 | #390 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,230 | 830 | #387 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,806 | 946 | #356 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,838 | 962 | #352 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,006 | 1,068 | #322 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,094 | 1,122 | #307 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,306 | 1,301 | #273 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,639 | 1,431 | #247 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,866 | 1,476 | #236 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,793 | 1,809 | #209 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,634 | 2,067 | #193 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,357 | 2,349 | #175 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,096 | 2,476 | #168 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,359 | 2,372 | #174 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,739 | 2,409 | #169 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,401 | 2,576 | #156 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,484 | 2,618 | #152 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,247 | 2,628 | #151 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,421 | 2,894 | #135 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,981 | 3,100 | #117 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,237 | 3,257 | #113 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,880 | 3,449 | #109 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,945 | 3,505 | #111 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,587 | 3,824 | #100 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,484 | 4,245 | #86 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,405 | 4,814 | #77 |
| 1992 | 143 | #1,223 | 5,153 | #71 |
| 1991 | 168 | #1,082 | 5,415 | #71 |
| 1990 | 171 | #1,050 | 5,721 | #69 |
| 1989 | 152 | #1,105 | 5,479 | #65 |
| 1988 | 194 | #900 | 5,893 | #61 |
| 1987 | 201 | #853 | 6,202 | #59 |
| 1986 | 252 | #713 | 7,018 | #55 |
| 1985 | 321 | #597 | 6,982 | #55 |
| 1984 | 268 | #650 | 6,049 | #56 |
| 1983 | 279 | #623 | 6,359 | #53 |
| 1982 | 311 | #589 | 6,842 | #52 |
| 1981 | 338 | #553 | 7,076 | #49 |
| 1980 | 388 | #512 | 7,698 | #47 |
| 1979 | 461 | #446 | 7,910 | #43 |
| 1978 | 534 | #392 | 9,289 | #39 |
| 1977 | 667 | #340 | 9,865 | #37 |
| 1976 | 772 | #297 | 10,108 | #34 |
| 1975 | 963 | #254 | 10,682 | #31 |
| 1974 | 1,271 | #200 | 11,438 | #30 |
| 1973 | 1,285 | #200 | 11,451 | #27 |
| 1972 | 1,575 | #184 | 11,277 | #28 |
| 1971 | 1,863 | #168 | 12,825 | #28 |
| 1970 | 1,971 | #168 | 10,945 | #34 |
| 1969 | 1,823 | #177 | 8,267 | #41 |
| 1968 | 1,751 | #184 | 7,478 | #43 |
| 1967 | 1,597 | #200 | 6,138 | #51 |
| 1966 | 1,492 | #209 | 5,725 | #54 |
| 1965 | 1,449 | #224 | 4,924 | #69 |
| 1964 | 1,402 | #232 | 4,403 | #88 |
| 1963 | 1,016 | #287 | 3,461 | #108 |
| 1962 | 902 | #310 | 2,866 | #124 |
| 1961 | 900 | #305 | 2,488 | #143 |
| 1960 | 755 | #350 | 2,045 | #163 |
| 1959 | 767 | #343 | 1,976 | #161 |
| 1958 | 747 | #342 | 1,183 | #223 |
| 1957 | 697 | #343 | 910 | #251 |
| 1956 | 547 | #379 | 569 | #312 |
| 1955 | 396 | #454 | 548 | #312 |
| 1954 | 310 | #504 | 429 | #344 |
| 1953 | 172 | #694 | 343 | #370 |
| 1952 | 120 | #841 | 189 | #509 |
| 1951 | 123 | #808 | 138 | #594 |
| 1950 | 117 | #808 | 175 | #508 |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,164 | 132 | #594 |
| 1948 | 83 | #962 | 143 | #561 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,523 | 57 | #936 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,084 | 22 | #1,551 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,640 | 17 | #1,685 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,114 | 13 | #2,070 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,833 | 27 | #1,362 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,402 | 19 | #1,674 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,523 | 16 | #1,811 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,178 | 13 | #2,067 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,733 | 11 | #2,271 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,910 | 10 | #2,463 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,880 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,663 | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,698 |
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).