Shaen

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Shan in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 13 more and Shån in JM Jamaica.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shaen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name111 records spelled Shaen2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Shaèn

• French given name58 records spelled Shaen3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States

  Also written Shaën

• Georgian given name32 records spelled Shaen2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Georgia

  Also written Შაენ

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 8 years between 1971–1986. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sir James Shaen, 1st Baronetgovernment official; (-1695)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shaen?

We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Shaen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Shaen have the most bearers?

Shaen is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled shan.

Where is Shaen most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shaen is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Australia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Shaen compared with other names?

In Australia, Shaen is the 986th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.

Is Shaen a male or female name?

Shaen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.