girls:
3.1k births since 1945
#3103 (46th percentile)
boys:
70.3k births since 1935
#392 (91st percentile)
overall:
73.4k births since 1935
#845 (89th percentile)
The name Shaun is the #845 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,412 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #392 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 70,283 births since 1935. For girls, it ranks #3,103 (45.7% percentile) for all time with 3,129 births since 1945.
Shaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for boys and 1945 for girls).
The name Shaun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shaun reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 92.4% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,573 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 3,573 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shaun ranks #798 for boys (12.4% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shaun reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #640) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 75 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaun".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shaun is pronounced as shawn, which has 1 syllables.
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