Shaan
#2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,507since 1970
Shaan over time
Rank among boys' names. Shaan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,207 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #1,941 | 80 |
| 2022 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 2020 | #2,069 | 68 |
| 2019 | #1,777 | 87 |
| 2018 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | #1,883 | 77 |
| 2016 | #1,599 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2014 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #1,782 | 81 |
| 2012 | #1,588 | 99 |
| 2011 | #1,516 | 105 |
| 2010 | #1,652 | 94 |
| 2009 | #1,472 | 113 |
| 2008 | #1,582 | 100 |
| 2007 | #1,650 | 93 |
| 2006 | #1,684 | 84 |
| 2005 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 62 |
| 2002 | #1,571 | 78 |
| 2001 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #1,895 | 55 |
| 1999 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
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| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
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| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
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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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#712 · 1 in 5,199
- California#990 · 1 in 10,286
- New York#1,063 · 1 in 9,349
- North Carolina#1,120 · 1 in 10,402
- Illinois#1,319 · 1 in 13,278
Best ever in a state: #399 in New Jersey, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #712 | 8 | 1 in 5,199 |
| California | #990 | 22 | 1 in 10,286 |
| New York | #1,063 | 11 | 1 in 9,349 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 5 | 1 in 10,402 |
| Illinois | #1,319 | 5 | 1 in 13,278 |
| Texas | #1,760 | 8 | 1 in 23,510 |
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See more about Shaan
- 129 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,207)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #2,207)
- 490 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #2,207)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2009 at #1,472 (113 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 35.2% of all boys named Shaan (882) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 35 | #3,724 (1976) | #4,316 |
| 1980s | 118 | #2,942 (1985) | #3,918 |
| 1990s | 238 | #2,444 (1995) | #3,212 |
| 2000s | 786 | #1,472 (2009) | #1,733 |
| 2010s | 882 | #1,516 (2011) | #1,745 |
| 2020s | 448 | #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 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 21,297 of them was named Shaan, which outranked 87.8% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,703Rockwell91
- #1,703Shalom91
- #1,703Teddy91
- #1,717Shaan90
- #1,717Arya90
- #1,717Athan90
- #1,717Auden90
- #1,729Aaiden89
- #1,729Cristofer89
- #1,729Deshaun89
Tied with 11 names at #1,717; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.