first name
SEAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 377,127 people named Sean, 76.5% reported their origin as White, 8.5% as Black and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sean peaked in 1990, when 12,070 babies got the name.
At least 426,606 babies have been given the name since 1925. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Sean by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #69. The largest share of babies named Sean, 39.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Sean is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sean has been most common in Alaska (2.1×), Hawaii (2×), and Delaware (1.9×), and least common in Mississippi (0.32×).
423,275 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Sean
Spelled almost the same
7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sean, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Sean ranks #35,764 of 156,621, with 676 people. See Sean as a last name
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