Meaning not yet researched.
Shayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,668 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,668 in 1999; #2,163 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shayan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,163 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,668.
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Shayan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,668 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 94 (2024).
In 2025, 67 US boys were named Shayan, making it the 2,163rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 399 places from #1,764 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 94 boys named Shayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,668, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,974 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shayan in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 2,354 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 665 babies named Shayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 752 US boys were named Shayan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shayan ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #909 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaun (73,610 babies since 1880), Shayne (13,701 babies since 1880), Shan (3,088 babies since 1880) and Shaan (2,507 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Shayan 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #909 | #1,225 |
| Michigan | 7 | #985 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,228 | #967 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,444 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,567 | #1,363 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 67 | #2,163 |
| 2024 | — | — | 94 | #1,764 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,891 |
| 2022 | — | — | 84 | #1,889 |
| 2021 | — | — | 73 | #2,037 |
| 2020 | — | — | 86 | #1,775 |
| 2019 | — | — | 73 | #2,015 |
| 2018 | — | — | 67 | #2,118 |
| 2017 | — | — | 60 | #2,235 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,162 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,974 |
| 2014 | — | — | 78 | #1,879 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,008 |
| 2012 | — | — | 63 | #2,150 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,312 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,417 | 56 | #2,317 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,937 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,154 | 63 | #2,155 |
| 2007 | — | — | 63 | #2,158 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,058 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,748 | 67 | #1,913 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,379 | 52 | #2,230 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,619 | 59 | #1,980 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,697 | 57 | #1,966 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,976 |
| 2000 | — | — | 57 | #1,871 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,479 | 64 | #1,668 |
| 1998 | — | — | 48 | #2,009 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,459 | 55 | #1,770 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,227 | 52 | #1,781 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,385 | 51 | #1,751 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,770 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,043 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,037 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,220 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,686 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,072 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,057 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,695 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,414 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,166 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,107 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,534 |
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).