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Shaquan

#7,120 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaquan has been given to 2,664 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #7,120 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 244 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.

Babies named Shaquan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Shaquan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Shaquan over time

In 2025, Shaquan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752025

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.

Shaquan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaquan means

Shaquan is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaquan

Wikidata records Shaquan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q136664150, 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, 2,127 boys were recorded with the name Shaquan between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 244 in 1994; its best national rank was #662 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,615 in 2020 to #7,120 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,699 in 2015 to #7,120 in 2025.

In the United States, 537 girls were recorded with the name Shaquan between 1975 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,285 in 1994.

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 Shaquan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,120
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaquan 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaquans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquan was born before 1996 — so the typical Shaquan is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
60.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,127
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 60.6% of all recorded uses (1,289).

Is Shaquan 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
+6,800
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,495
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,421
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.9%
Peak was 1994 (244)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#662
1994

Spellings of Shaquan

Shaquan is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 67.4% against Shaquan's 2.0%.

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 Shaquan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Shaquan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 84,144 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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

Where Shaquan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Shaquan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 243,692 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Shaquan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaquan around the world

Where Shaquan 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
    1997–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,357
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #1,577
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shaquan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,120
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,495
Best rank ever
#662
1994
Peak year
1994
244 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,127
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,285
1994
Peak year
1994
58 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
537
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shaquan

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

ShauryaShareefShaheedShaydenShayanShalomShamusShakeemSharifShayaanShaheemShakurShamirShajuanSharodShaheenShakirMarquanJayquanShaheerShayaShaanShadrachRayquan

Names with a curve like Shaquan

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

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Sibling names for Shaquan

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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