How rare is the name Shaun?

64,418 people in the United States have the first name Shaun, about 1 in 4,689. It ranks #773 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHAUN

#773

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
64,418
About
1 in 4,689
This common or more
66.1%
Who bears it

Of the 64,418 people named Shaun, 71.8% reported their origin as White, 14% as Black and 5.3% as two or more races. 95.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shaun peaked in 1978, when 6,221 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19352025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
6,221
In 2025*
79 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 73,610 babies have been given the name since 1935. 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.

Shaun by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #241. The largest share of babies named Shaun, 38.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#5,92363
1940s#2,949255
1950s#1,3031,655
1960s#6636,505
1970s#28720,118
1980s#24124,941
1990s#6238,890
2000s#8237,147
2010s#1,5693,268
2020s#3,005768
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–645.7%
Generation X 1965–8038.4%
Millennials 1981–9637.7%
Generation Z 1997–1214.4%
2013 and later3.6%

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 Shaun is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shaun has been most common in Hawaii (2.4×), Utah (2.2×), and Idaho (1.7×), and least common in Mississippi (0.54×).

68,617 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 Shaun

#771 Gene · 64,474#772 Bertha · 64,455#774 Shelley · 64,253#775 Gianna · 64,221

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shaun, most common first.

#191 Shawn · 279,685#1,382 Shauna · 25,557#3,420 Shan · 6,106#7,167 Shaan · 2,150#7,603 Shun · 1,991#11,056 Shain · 1,177#15,379 Shaune · 749#18,452 Shann · 584

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