Sean
Sean is ranked 436th among boys in 2024 (726 births). Its best rank was 33rd, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- #436down 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7260.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 199012,018 births
- Best rank
- #33in 1972
- Since 1925
- 425,998people given the name
The story in the numbers
423,036 boys have been named Sean in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 12,018 births — 0.59% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 193 → 436).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 25%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 45 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,962 girls have also been given it, 0.70% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sean | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 101 | |
| 1940s | 659 | |
| 1950s | 5,452 | |
| 1960s | 47,284 | |
| 1970s | 83,843 | |
| 1980s | 103,875 | |
| 1990s | 92,001 | |
| 2000s | 64,131 | |
| 2010s | 21,534 | |
| 2020s | 4,144 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Sean was the 37th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Sean
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dericpeak 1980
- Erikpeak 1980
- Derreckpeak 1990
- Bradlypeak 1990
- Shanepeak 1973
- Miquelpeak 1986
- Serjiopeak 1979
- Derricpeak 1981
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.