girls:
6 births since 1968
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
414 births since 1964
#4172 (9th percentile)
overall:
420 births since 1964
#7319 (5th percentile)
The name Shean is the #7,319 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 420 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 5.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,172 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 414 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1968.
Shean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Shean is available in 38 out of the 46 years between 1964 and 2009 (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 Shean has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shean reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #648) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 13 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
For girls, Shean reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #746) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shean".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Shean is pronounced as sheen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEE-uhn, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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