Shaan

#2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births

Peak · boys
2009 · 113 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,507
since 1970

Shaan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Shaan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #1,472, 2009boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,20764
2024#2,07872
2023#1,94180
2022#2,16867
2021#1,68897
2020#2,06968
2019#1,77787
2018#1,99473
2017#1,88377
2016#1,599102
2015#1,71790
2014#1,94574
2013#1,78281
2012#1,58899
2011#1,516105
2010#1,65294
2009#1,472113
2008#1,582100
2007#1,65093
2006#1,68484
2005#1,81371
2004#1,56584
2003#1,88562
2002#1,57178
2001#2,21746
2000#1,89555
1999#2,86529
1998#2,45035
1997#2,98125
1996#3,67818
1995#2,44431
1994#3,10922
1993#2,64127
1992#2,67026
1991#3,46217
1990#5,8238
1989#3,44616
1988#3,20316
1987#3,95911
1986#3,00516
1985#2,94216
1984#3,70111
1983#3,63011
1982#5,6196
1981#4,1539
1980#5,5256
1979#4,8427
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1972#4,9865
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Shaan! It came in at #3,836, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Shaan is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more boys named Shaan in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shaan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 129 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,207)
  • 138 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #2,207)
  • 490 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #2,207)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2009 at #1,472 (113 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,554
  • Highest: 1 in 17,554 boys born in 2009 were named Shaan (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 26,689 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 35.2% of all boys named Shaan (882) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s35#3,724 (1976)#4,316
1980s118#2,942 (1985)#3,918
1990s238#2,444 (1995)#3,212
2000s786#1,472 (2009)#1,733
2010s882#1,516 (2011)#1,745
2020s448#1,688 (2021)#2,025

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Shaan in 1970

boys
#3,836
7 births · 1 in 265,461 boys

Top boys' names in 1970

  1. #1Michael85,266
  2. #2James61,735
  3. #3David61,728
  4. #4John58,491
  5. #5Robert57,177
  6. #6Christopher41,747
  7. #7William38,887
  8. #8Brian31,917
  9. #9Mark31,461
  10. #10Richard30,442
  11. #3,836Shaan7
More about 1970

boys

1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 265,461 of them was named Shaan, which outranked 29.4% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shaan
  1. #3,521Zeb8
  2. #3,521Zenon8
  3. #3,521Zoran8
  4. #3,836Shaan7
  5. #3,836Acey7
  6. #3,836Adin7
  7. #3,836Adren7
  8. #4,230Abbott6
  9. #4,230Abdon6
  10. #4,230Ade6

Tied with 393 names at #3,836; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,783Jermaine#4,404 → #621
  2. ↑ 1,000Dax#1,861 → #861
  3. ↑ 842Jeramy#1,810 → #968
  4. ↑ 639Branden#1,570 → #931
  5. ↑ 407Braden#1,396 → #989
Fallers
  1. ↓ 593Jemal#549 → #1,142
  2. ↓ 307Karen#885 → #1,192
  3. ↓ 307Merlin#885 → #1,192
  4. ↓ 302Dennie#920 → #1,222
  5. ↓ 276Luciano#931 → #1,207

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970 →