Shawn
Shawn is ranked 638th among boys in 2024 (438 births). Its best rank was 27th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- #638down 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4380.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 197112,825 births
- Best rank
- #27in 1973
- Since 1931
- 339,174people given the name
The story in the numbers
306,134 boys have been named Shawn in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 12,825 births — 0.73% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 438 births in 2024, against 12,825 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 35%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 33,040 girls have also been given it, 9.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shawn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 40 | |
| 1940s | 460 | |
| 1950s | 6,460 | |
| 1960s | 47,791 | |
| 1970s | 105,794 | |
| 1980s | 65,600 | |
| 1990s | 42,484 | |
| 2000s | 24,197 | |
| 2010s | 10,671 | |
| 2020s | 2,637 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Shawn was the 28th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1971 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Shawn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrickpeak 1971
- Errickpeak 1972
- Taddpeak 1985
- Torrancepeak 1973
- Trevispeak 1979
- Heathpeak 1974
- Ericpeak 1970
- Brainpeak 1982
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.