How rare is the name Shavon?

4,099 people in the United States have the first name Shavon, about 1 in 73,684. It ranks #4,514 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SHAVON

#4,514

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,099
About
1 in 73,684
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,099 people named Shavon, 73.6% reported their origin as Black, 15.7% as White and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 91.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shavon peaked in 1979, when 368 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19582019
Peak year
1979
Births that year
368
In 2019
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,266 babies have been given the name since 1958. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shavon by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,511. The largest share of babies named Shavon, 55.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#13,00310
1960s#6,266106
1970s#2,114871
1980s#1,5111,857
1990s#2,6401,021
2000s#8,007278
2010s#14,684123
Baby boom 1946–640.8%
Generation X 1965–8029.4%
Millennials 1981–9655.9%
Generation Z 1997–1212.6%
2013 and later1.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shavon is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shavon has been most common in District of Columbia (3.8×), Illinois (3×), and New York (2.8×), and least common in Ohio (0.59×).

2,445 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.

Exactly as common as Shavon

1 other first name also has 4,099 people.

#4,514 Arvin · 4,099

Either side of Shavon

#4,513 Niya · 4,100#4,514 Arvin · 4,099#4,516 Sahil · 4,098#4,517 Estefani · 4,094

Spelled almost the same

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

#17,651 Shevon · 620#23,303 Shavone · 421#32,949 Shavona · 253#34,742 Shivon · 234#38,175 Shavonn · 202

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