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Shawn

Rank in 2024
#7,274
Born in 2024
15
Peak year
1970 · #168
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:438 in 2024 (#637)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 15 girls were named Shawn, about 1 in every 107,546.
  • It peaked in 1970 with 1,971 babies, ranked #168.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1932.
  • 33,040 girls have been named Shawn since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Shawn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 80 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,177 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen X: 19,861 babies, 0.78 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,190 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 585 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 147 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Wiktionary has no English entry for Shawn yet, so we don’t show a meaning rather than guess one.

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