Shavaughn

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God is gracious, through Siobhán

Shavaughn has been given to 185 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1980, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Shavaughn, 2003

1 in 634,000

Shavaughn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2003, Shavaughn went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19772003

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.

Shavaughn: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Siobhán

Irish

What Shavaughn means

Shavaughn belongs to the name family reached through Shavaughn → Siobhán. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shavaughn is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Shavaughn comes through Irish Siobhán.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Siobhán.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 girls were recorded with the name Shavaughn between 1977 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1980; its best national rank was #5,476 in 1982.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Shavaughn between 1993 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,538 in 1993.

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 Shavaughn?

Shavaughn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 634,000; 6 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only: 1 in 304,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 439,159 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shavaughn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 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 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shavaughn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shavaughns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shavaughn was born before 1985 — so the typical Shavaughn is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 90.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 174; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Shavaughn 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 1980 (13)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,476; 1982

Spellings of Shavaughn

Shavaughn is not the most common spelling — Lavaughn is, with 84.7% against Shavaughn's 15.3%.

Lavaughn84.7%962
Shavaughn15.3%174

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 Shavaughn is used

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

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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

Shavaughn around the world

Where Shavaughn 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
1978–1978
#626
in 1978

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

Shavaughn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,476; 1982
Peak year: 1980; 13 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 174
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,538; 1993
Peak year: 1993; 6 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 1995
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Shavaughn

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

Sibling names for Shavaughn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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