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Shawn

Rank in 2024
#637
Born in 2024
438
Peak year
1971 · #28
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:15 in 2024 (#7,274)

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 438 boys were named Shawn, about 1 in every 3,916.
  • It peaked in 1971 with 12,825 babies, ranked #28.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1931.
  • 306,134 boys 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. 0.6
    Boomers
  4. 5.4
    Gen X
  5. 3.0
    Millennials
  6. 1.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 145 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 22,073 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Gen X: 146,025 babies, 5.37 per 1,000. Millennials: 90,580 babies, 2.98 per 1,000. Gen Z: 38,210 babies, 1.22 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,101 babies, 0.42 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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