How Many People Are Named Sean?
people named Sean are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 858 people in the US has this name
Based on 426,606 babies named Sean in Social Security records from 1925 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
12,070 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Irish form of JOHN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sean in English. Counting Sean and these spellings together, about 776,651 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Sean, 0.7% were girls and 99.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1930s: 4.7% of the babies were girls then and 0.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sean alive today is about 37 years old, and 66% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 49 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sean first appears in the records in 1925 and was given most often in 1990, to 12,070 babies. In 2025, 623 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1925 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sean never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #33, in 1972, and it was in the top 100 for 45 years, 1965 to 2009. In 2025 it ranked #489.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #489 |
| Best rank | #33 (1972) |
| Years in the top 100 | 45 (1965 to 2009) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #41 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sean alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sean were born in California than in any other state: about 54,070 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sean was given 2.1 times as often in Massachusetts, 1.7 times in Connecticut and 1.7 times in District of Columbia.
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