Shaune

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Shaune has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1959. 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 1978, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.

Babies named Shaune, 2009

1 in 424,000

Shaune 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shaune over time

In 2009, Shaune went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19502009

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 Shaune?

Shaune had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 424,000
9 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
294,228 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaune 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 2009 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 294,228 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaune. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaunes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaune was born before 1979 — so the typical Shaune is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
444
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1970s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Shaune 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (27)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,893
1967

Spellings of Shaune

Shaune is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 51.3% against Shaune's 0.07%.

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 Shaune is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Shaune was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Shaune has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Shaune is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Shaune was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Shaune has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaune around the world

Where Shaune 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.

  • South Australia
    1959–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shaune by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,893
1967
Peak year
1978
27 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
444
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,889
1969
Peak year
1969
44 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
335
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Shaune

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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