Shaun
Shaun is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 110 births. Its best rank was 52nd, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1100.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19786,105 births
- Best rank
- #52in 1978
- Since 1935
- 73,527people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,398 boys have been named Shaun in the United States since 1935, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 6,105 births — 0.37% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 110 births in 2024, against 6,105 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 35%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,129 girls have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shaun | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 63 | |
| 1940s | 230 | |
| 1950s | 1,239 | |
| 1960s | 5,559 | |
| 1970s | 19,320 | |
| 1980s | 24,470 | |
| 1990s | 8,620 | |
| 2000s | 7,010 | |
| 2010s | 3,215 | |
| 2020s | 672 |
In 1978, its biggest year
Shaun was the 52nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1978 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Shaun
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeremypeak 1977
- Jeremepeak 1980
- Chadrickpeak 1976
- Jeremiepeak 1976
- Andraepeak 1982
- Jeramypeak 1976
- Jerodpeak 1980
- Dustanpeak 1984
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.