Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shon” 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 “Shon” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shon” 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
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 13 0.000003153 5 8 -23%
1957 20 0.000004759 8 12 -20%
1958 19 0.000004596 10 9 5%
1959 29 0.000006975 5 24 -66%
1960 39 0.000009389 9 30 -54%
1961 52 0.000012553 18 34 -31%
1962 35 0.000008673 10 25 -43%
1963 52 0.000013137 9 43 -65%
1964 75 0.000019292 17 58 -55%
1965 98 0.000027031 16 82 -67%
1966 113 0.000032512 21 92 -63%
1967 158 0.00004654 19 139 -76%
1968 225 0.000066599 29 196 -74%
1969 263 0.000075676 21 242 -84%
1970 302 0.000083737 21 281 -86%
1971 329 0.000095853 28 301 -83%
1972 271 0.000086224 18 253 -87%
1973 274 0.000090822 18 256 -87%
1974 269 0.000088487 12 257 -91%
1975 232 0.000076837 19 213 -84%
1976 158 0.000052071 12 146 -85%
1977 165 0.000051944 10 155 -88%
1978 106 0.000033398 106 -100%
1979 82 0.000024647 82 -100%
1980 84 0.000024387 6 78 -86%
1981 83 0.000023993 5 78 -88%
1982 69 0.00001967 69 -100%
1983 65 0.000018768 65 -100%
1984 56 0.000016052 56 -100%
1985 54 0.00001513 54 -100%
1986 71 0.00001996 71 -100%
1987 69 0.000019137 69 -100%
1988 67 0.000018132 67 -100%
1989 84 0.00002185 84 -100%
1990 79 0.000019987 79 -100%
1991 88 0.000022592 88 -100%
1992 69 0.000017963 69 -100%
1993 83 0.000022014 7 76 -83%
1994 82 0.000022057 82 -100%
1995 71 0.000019387 71 -100%
1996 73 0.000020015 5 68 -86%
1997 55 0.000015169 55 -100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 -100%
1999 53 0.000014348 53 -100%
2000 44 0.000011641 44 -100%
2001 47 0.000012555 47 -100%
2002 47 0.000012573 47 -100%
2003 45 0.000011835 45 -100%
2004 55 0.000014394 55 -100%
2005 48 0.000012484 48 -100%
2006 46 0.000011627 46 -100%
2007 34 0.000008505 34 -100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 -100%
2009 30 0.000007853 30 -100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 -100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 -100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 24 0.000006475 24 -100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 -100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 -100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 -100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 -100%

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