girls:
58 births since 1995
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1982
#2723 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1982
#5601 (28th percentile)
The name Shayan is the #5,601 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,191 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 27.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,723 (40.6% percentile) for all time with 2,133 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1995.
Shayan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for boys and 1995 for girls). Birth data for Shayan is available in 41 out of the 42 years between 1982 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 10 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 Shayan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shayan reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #820) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 46 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Shayan is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #832 (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million.
For girls, Shayan reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #884) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shayan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shayan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Shayan is pronounced as SHAY-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shah-YAHN, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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