Shaun

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sean in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 21 more, שון in IL Israel, FR France and Schön in DE Germany.

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●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology 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◐

Shaun is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name48K records spelled Shaun10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, France, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Shaûn, Shãùn, Šhäūñ, Shäuñ, Shäun

• a separate given name27K records spelled Shaun2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Shaún

68 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.

Other recorded senses●

Shaun is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Alternative spelling of Sean.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In German, ) Shawn [Jo:n]: männl. Vom., englische Schreibweise des irischen Vor­ namens

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• An alternative spelling of Sean.

  as a name·Irish first names

• Anglicized spelling of SEÁN , somewhat less common than SHAWN in America, but more so in Britain.

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 91 years between 1935–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Shaun Cassidyb. 1958USAmerican television producer, screenwriter, actor, and singer (born 1958)
• Sean Beanb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (born 1959)
• Shaun Toubb. 1963USIranian-born American actor
• Shaun Donovanb. 1966USAmerican government official
• Shaun Goaterb. 1970GBBermudian footballer (born 1970)
• Shaun Parkesb. 1973GBBritish actor
• Shaun Evansb. 1980GBBritish actor
• Shaun Wright-Phillipsb. 1981GBEnglish association football player (born 1981)
• Shaun Livingstonb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
• Shaun Whiteb. 1986USAmerican snowboarder and skateboarder

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 · 755 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shaun?

We estimate roughly 381 thousand people bear Shaun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Shaun have the most bearers?

Shaun is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sean.

How common is Shaun compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Shaun is the 80th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Shaun a male or female name?

Shaun is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Shaun mean?

Recorded meaning: , ? Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic Sean.