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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shawn

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#682

down −44 places

2025 births

399

down −41 births

All-time births

306,542

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1971
12,825 births
Best rank
#27
in 1973
First recorded
1931
#3,698 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1982
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
91 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197112,825#28Peak
  2. 197311,451#27
  3. 197411,438#30
  4. 197211,277#28
  5. 197010,945#34

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #27 in 1973 · peak births 12,825 in 1971

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 90% boys■ 10% girls

306,542 boys · 33,055 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shawn has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.