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Shaan

#2,223 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaan has been given to 2,507 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,223 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Shaan, 2025

1 in 51,800

Shaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaan means

Shaan is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaan

Wikidata records Shaan as a given name. The entity identifier is Q97751250, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,507 boys were recorded with the name Shaan between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,481 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,091 in 2020 to #2,223 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,728 in 2015 to #2,223 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,223
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaan was born before 2010 — so the typical Shaan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,507
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (882).

Is Shaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−130
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−132
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−495
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.6%
Peak was 2009 (113)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,481
2009

Spellings of Shaan

Shaan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 37.1% against Shaan's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shaan is used

Across 2016–2025, Shaan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 16,440 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Illinois1 in 12,500
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Shaan around the world

Where Shaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #856
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2000
    #429
    in 2000
  • France
    2002–2023
    #5,610
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shaan

People whose public names include Shaan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,223
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 132
Best rank ever
#1,481
2009
Peak year
2009
113 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,507
Count in 2025
64

Names similar to Shaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShayaanShayaShainShaiShalomShadeSharifShayanShamusShantShaeShakurShaulShadiShamirShakaShayeKiaanShawSharodShadShayShakirRiaan

Names with a curve like Shaan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArionTahaMahdiFilipKainoaCanonKayneHadiHagenNahumDevRamses

Sibling names for Shaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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