Shawn

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shawn is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ,92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic Sean, used mainly in North America.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 1.1K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 1.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈256K ●

across 7 countries

#763 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
561 ●

3.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 533 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

ShawnLatin · English●3.4M records
ชอว์นThai · Thai●7 records
ШонCyrillic · Tajik●1 records

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●

,92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic Sean, used mainly in North America. In Canada it is also found as a girl’s name.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shawn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#157253,0152.9M rec.1 in 1.3K253KShawn561
GB United Kingdom#287111,034109K rec.—3Shawn180
CA Canada#17079,06267K rec.—5Shawn234
AU Australia#45837,68436K rec.—3Shawn203
IT Italy#48213,61414K rec.—4Shawn57
SG Singapore#648,6278.4K rec.——Shawn120
PH Philippines—7,3876.2K rec.——Shawn80
RU Russia—6,7116.8K rec.——Shawn36
ZA South Africa#5546,6646.5K rec.——Shawn104
IL Israel—5,6155.7K rec.——Shawn42
GY Guyana—1,4082.3K rec.1 in 5331.4K—13
TH Thailand—1,2381.2K rec.——Shawn67

Roughly 253K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.4M85%
  • Spanish140K4%
  • 127K3%
  • French28K1%
  • German28K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,403,42485%
Spanish139,9074%
126,8903%
French28,1971%
German27,7021%

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◐

Shawn is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name208K records spelled Shawn15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Shâwn, Shāwñ, Shäwn, Śhawn, Śháwń

  • Greek given name6.2K records spelled Shawn11 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Sean, Sohn, SoN, Sồn, Seàn

  • Hungarian given name4.7K records spelled Shawn4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, Canada

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Śhãwñ

  • Turkish given name2.4K records spelled Shawn6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şhåwn, Ŝhåẅñ, Shawñ

63 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●

Shawn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Variant of Sean.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • Anglicized spelling of SEÁN , found mainly in America.

    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●

05K10K15K1940196019802000202013K · 1971

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Shawn in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1931–2025
Yearrecords
19316
19325
19367
19378
193810
193911
194013
194116
194219
194327
194413
194517
194622
194757
1948143
1949132
1950175
1951138
1952189
1953343
1954429
1955548
1956569
1957910
19581,183
19591,976
19602,045
19612,488
19622,866
19633,461
19644,403
19654,924
19665,725
19676,138
19687,478
19698,267
197010,945
197112,825
197211,277
197311,451
197411,438
197510,682
197610,108
19779,865
19789,289
19797,910
19807,698
19817,076
19826,842
19836,359
19846,049
19856,982
19867,018
19876,202
19885,893
19895,479
19905,721
19915,415
19925,153
19934,814
19944,245
19953,824
19963,505
19973,449
19983,257
19993,100
20002,894
20012,628
20022,618
20032,576
20042,409
20052,372
20062,476
20072,349
20082,067
20091,809
20101,476
20111,431
20121,301
20131,122
20141,068
2015962
2016946
2017830
2018814
2019723
2020659
2021587
2022523
2023438
2024440
2025399

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 92 years between 1931–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Shawn Weatherly, b. 1959Shawn Michaels, b. 1965Shawn Levy, b. 1968Jay Z, b. 1969Shawn Wayans, b. 1971Shawn Bradley, b. 1972Shawn Hatosy, b. 1975Shawn Ashmore, b. 1979Shawn Pyfrom, b. 1986Shawn Mendes, b. 1998

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●

Attested in 68 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Shawn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020253K#191
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202027K#191
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.4K#25
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.2K#1,709
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,128
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020972#26,440
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010961#25,659
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025399—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—278#3,764
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—220#5,161
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—214#844
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—208#5,096

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shawn?
We estimate roughly 256 thousand people bear Shawn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Shawn have the most bearers?
We estimate about 253 thousand people bear Shawn in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shawn.
Where is Shawn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shawn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 533 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Shawn compared with other names?
In the United States, Shawn is the 157th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Shawn a male or female name?
Shawn 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 Shawn mean?
Recorded meaning: ,92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic Sean, used mainly in North America.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shawn” — the 157th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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