girls:
5 births since 1973
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
387 births since 1965
#4199 (8th percentile)
overall:
392 births since 1965
#7347 (5th percentile)
The name Shaughn is the #7,347 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 392 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 5.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,199 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 387 births since 1965. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1973.
Shaughn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Shaughn is available in 38 out of the 48 years between 1965 and 2012 (38 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shaughn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shaughn reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #691) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
For girls, Shaughn reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #740) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaughn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shaughn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.5% confident that Shaughn is pronounced as shawn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhn, at 14.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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