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Shahin

#8,136 in 2025Boys' name

Hawk, falcon

Shahin has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #8,136 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Shahin, 2025

1 in 332,000

Shahin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahin: meaning, origin, and history

Hawk, falcon

Persian

What Shahin means

Shahin means “hawk, falcon”, associated with shahin.

Origin, language, and formation

Shahin is used in Albanian. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 329 boys were recorded with the name Shahin between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,051 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,799 in 2020 to #8,136 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,427 in 2015 to #8,136 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shahin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,136
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahin 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahin was born before 1994 — so the typical Shahin is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
329
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Shahin 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
+3,991
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,663
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,291
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.6%
Peak was 1989 (19)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,051
1987

Spellings of Shahin

Shahin is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 74.9% against Shahin's 0.08%.

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 Shahin is used

Across 1910–2025, Shahin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 472,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Shahin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shahin around the world

Where Shahin 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
    1997–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #1,308
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Shahin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,663
Best rank ever
#3,051
1987
Peak year
1989
19 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
329
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Shahin

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

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Sibling names for Shahin

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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