Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shawn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shawn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shawn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Shawn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Shawn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Shawn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Shawn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shawn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 7 5 17%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 5 10 -33%
1939 18 0.000008169 7 11 -22%
1940 22 0.000009554 9 13 -18%
1941 24 0.00000985 8 16 -33%
1942 28 0.00001025 9 19 -36%
1943 39 0.000013817 12 27 -38%
1944 23 0.00000855 10 13 -13%
1945 25 0.000009424 8 17 -36%
1946 43 0.000013457 21 22 -2%
1947 96 0.000026649 39 57 -19%
1948 226 0.000065459 83 143 -27%
1949 195 0.000055958 62 133 -36%
1950 292 0.000083349 117 175 -20%
1951 261 0.000070852 123 138 -6%
1952 309 0.000081358 120 189 -22%
1953 515 0.00013364 172 343 -33%
1954 739 0.000185645 310 429 -16%
1955 944 0.000235114 396 548 -16%
1956 1116 0.000270674 547 569 -2%
1957 1606 0.000382186 697 909 -13%
1958 1930 0.000466871 747 1183 -23%
1959 2744 0.000659934 767 1977 -44%
1960 2800 0.000674079 755 2045 -46%
1961 3385 0.000817179 900 2485 -47%
1962 3769 0.000933991 902 2867 -52%
1963 4475 0.001130564 1016 3459 -55%
1964 5805 0.001493207 1403 4402 -52%
1965 6372 0.001757575 1448 4924 -55%
1966 7217 0.002076443 1492 5725 -59%
1967 7736 0.002278714 1597 6139 -59%
1968 9228 0.00273146 1751 7477 -62%
1969 10091 0.002903615 1823 8268 -64%
1970 12916 0.003581298 1971 10945 -69%
1971 14688 0.004279278 1863 12825 -75%
1972 12854 0.004089731 1575 11279 -75%
1973 12736 0.00422157 1285 11451 -80%
1974 12709 0.004180593 1271 11438 -80%
1975 11645 0.003856734 963 10682 -83%
1976 10882 0.00358633 772 10110 -86%
1977 10532 0.003315605 667 9865 -87%
1978 9823 0.00309496 533 9290 -89%
1979 8371 0.002516081 462 7909 -89%
1980 8086 0.002347506 388 7698 -90%
1981 7414 0.002143162 338 7076 -91%
1982 7155 0.002039646 311 6844 -91%
1983 6639 0.001916936 279 6360 -92%
1984 6317 0.001810675 268 6049 -92%
1985 7302 0.002045888 321 6981 -91%
1986 7270 0.002043812 252 7018 -93%
1987 6403 0.001775842 201 6202 -94%
1988 6087 0.001647342 194 5893 -94%
1989 5631 0.00146471 152 5479 -95%
1990 5893 0.001490963 171 5722 -94%
1991 5582 0.001433022 168 5414 -94%
1992 5297 0.00137897 143 5154 -95%
1993 4930 0.001307596 116 4814 -95%
1994 4351 0.001170362 106 4245 -95%
1995 3920 0.001070408 96 3824 -95%
1996 3579 0.000981302 74 3505 -96%
1997 3528 0.00097304 79 3449 -96%
1998 3321 0.000902886 64 3257 -96%
1999 3145 0.000851411 45 3100 -97%
2000 2958 0.00078256 64 2894 -96%
2001 2671 0.000713524 43 2628 -97%
2002 2646 0.00070781 28 2618 -98%
2003 2606 0.000685371 30 2576 -98%
2004 2448 0.000640683 39 2409 -97%
2005 2404 0.000625253 32 2372 -97%
2006 2494 0.000630405 18 2476 -99%
2007 2376 0.000594344 27 2349 -98%
2008 2099 0.000534006 33 2066 -97%
2009 1840 0.000481653 31 1809 -97%
2010 1494 0.000404249 19 1475 -97%
2011 1443 0.0003945 12 1431 -98%
2012 1322 0.000361462 21 1301 -97%
2013 1137 0.000311877 15 1122 -97%
2014 1082 0.000291929 15 1067 -97%
2015 970 0.000262098 8 962 -98%
2016 959 0.000261401 13 946 -97%
2017 844 0.000236005 14 830 -97%
2018 831 0.000236355 17 814 -96%
2019 735 0.000211759 12 723 -97%
2020 668 0.000199965 11 657 -97%
2021 588 0.000173556 5 583 -98%
2022 536 0.000158433 14 522 -95%
2023 445 0.000134393 8 437 -96%
2024 453 0.000136097 15 438 -93%

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