Shaunak
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaunak has been given to 271 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2006, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Shaunak, 2022
1 in 564,000
Shaunak 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shaunak?
Shaunak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaunak sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaunak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaunaks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaunak was born before 2009 — so the typical Shaunak is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 271
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (144).
Is Shaunak 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 2006 (21)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shaunak
Shaunak is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 99.6% against Shaunak's 0.38%.
- Shaun99.6%70,481
- Shaunak0.38%271
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 Shaunak is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaunak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 823,590 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 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. Shaunak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaunak around the world
Where Shaunak 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 & Wales2008–2015#3,908in 2015
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shaunak by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaunak
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaunak
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.