Shann
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shann has been given to 495 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.
Babies named Shann, 2006
1 in 659,000
Shann over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shann over time
In 2006, Shann went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shann?
Shann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shann was born before 1974 — so the typical Shann is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 47.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 281
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Shann 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (20)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shann
Shann is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 36.0% against Shann's 0.02%.
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 Shann is used
Across 1910–2025, Shann was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,634,823 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Montana1 in 100,000
- 2California1 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. Shann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shann around the world
Where Shann 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.
- France2004–2012#5,703in 2012
- Canada2022–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1954–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.