How Many People Are Named Shaun?
people named Shaun are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,007 people in the US has this name
Based on 73,610 babies named Shaun in Social Security records from 1935 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
6,221 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Anglicized form of SEÁN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shaun in English. Counting Shaun and these spellings together, about 776,651 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Shaun, 4.2% were girls and 95.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1940s: 9.8% of the babies were girls then and 2% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shaun alive today is about 40 years old, and 74% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 47 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shaun first appears in the records in 1935 and was given most often in 1978, to 6,221 babies. In 2025, 79 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1935 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shaun never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #52, in 1978, and it was in the top 100 for 5 years, 1978 to 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,956.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,956 |
| Best rank | #52 (1978) |
| Years in the top 100 | 5 (1978 to 1982) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #121 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shaun alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shaun were born in California than in any other state: about 7,139 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shaun was given 2 times as often in Hawaii, 1.8 times in Massachusetts and 1.8 times in Utah.
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