How popular is the name Shawn?

Shawn ranks 621st among girls' names in US records, with 39,471 births since 1932. Over the past decade it accounts for 185.

Is Shawn a unisex name?

No. Shawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1970, when 2,202 children were given the name. It has been in use for 93 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Shaun, Sean, Shaune, Seann. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#621 of girl names

Pronounced S EY1 AE1 N (ARPABET)

Shawn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1932. It has been given to 39,471 children — the 621st most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 185 births across the past decade, against a peak of 2,202 in a single year. That peak was in 1970.

Four other spellings are counted in that total — Shaun, Sean, Shaune and one more — because they are pronounced identically.

19702,202

These spellings sound identical to Shawn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Shawn?: Shawn ranks 621st among girls' names in US records, with 39,471 births since 1932. Over the past decade it accounts for 185.
Is Shawn a unisex name?: No. Shawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Shawn most popular?: 1970, when 2,202 children were given the name. It has been in use for 93 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Shawn spelled?: Shaun, Sean, Shaune, Seann. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.