Meaning not yet researched.
Shon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #470 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #470 in 1971; #8,814 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,814 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #470.
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Shon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #470 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 301 (1971).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Shon, making it the 8,814th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,611 places from #7,203 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 12 boys named Shon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #470, reached in 1971. That year also had the most boys given the name: 301. For comparison, it was #5,705 in 2015 and #2,749 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shon in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 9 babies. In all, 5,530 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,189 babies named Shon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 165 US boys were named Shon; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shun, Shone and Shonn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shun (939), Shone (386), Shonn (247), Shunn (16), Shohn (11), Shoan (9), Shoun (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.
No nicknames listed for Shon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,814 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,203 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,462 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,992 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #7,033 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,198 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,937 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,330 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,722 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,011 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,705 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,242 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,616 |
| 2012 | — | — | 23 | #4,365 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,973 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,623 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,812 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,298 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,617 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,425 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,156 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,388 |
| 2002 | — | — | 47 | #2,245 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,213 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,250 |
| 1999 | — | — | 53 | #1,877 |
| 1998 | — | — | 44 | #2,121 |
| 1997 | — | — | 55 | #1,771 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,527 | 68 | #1,498 |
| 1995 | — | — | 71 | #1,414 |
| 1994 | — | — | 82 | #1,295 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,626 | 76 | #1,311 |
| 1992 | — | — | 69 | #1,370 |
| 1991 | — | — | 88 | #1,190 |
| 1990 | — | — | 79 | #1,250 |
| 1989 | — | — | 84 | #1,161 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,262 |
| 1987 | — | — | 69 | #1,160 |
| 1986 | — | — | 71 | #1,125 |
| 1985 | — | — | 54 | #1,317 |
| 1984 | — | — | 56 | #1,237 |
| 1983 | — | — | 65 | #1,117 |
| 1982 | — | — | 69 | #1,106 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,911 | 78 | #1,035 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,186 | 78 | #1,030 |
| 1979 | — | — | 82 | #982 |
| 1978 | — | — | 106 | #834 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,272 | 156 | #678 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,149 | 146 | #686 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,617 | 213 | #553 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,974 | 257 | #497 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,615 | 256 | #487 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,517 | 253 | #498 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,656 | 301 | #470 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,190 | 281 | #484 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,997 | 242 | #498 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,288 | 196 | #539 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,946 | 139 | #636 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,735 | 92 | #764 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,244 | 82 | #819 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,221 | 57 | #1,003 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,852 | 43 | #1,192 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,494 | 25 | #1,618 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,044 | 34 | #1,385 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,732 | 30 | #1,479 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,081 | 24 | #1,659 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,157 | 9 | #3,004 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,864 | 12 | #2,476 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,766 | 8 | #3,172 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,732 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,920 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,747 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,749 |
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).