girls:
30 births since 1969
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
909 births since 1925
#3681 (20th percentile)
overall:
939 births since 1925
#6800 (12th percentile)
The name Shun is the #6,800 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 939 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 12.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,681 (19.7% percentile) for all time with 909 births since 1925. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1969.
Shun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Shun is available in 59 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (59 years for boys and 5 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 Shun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shun reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #609) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shun ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 11.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shun reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #759) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shun".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shun is pronounced as shuhn, which has 1 syllables.
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