Shayaan

#5,811 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Shayaan has been given to 777 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #5,811 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Shayaan, 2025

1 in 207,000

Shayaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,811
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shayaan 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shayaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shayaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shayaan was born before 2012 — so the typical Shayaan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
777
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (423).

Is Shayaan 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,556
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,393
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.7%
Peak was 2011 (60)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,196
2011

Spellings of Shayaan

Shayaan is not the most common spelling — Ayaan is, with 41.0% against Shayaan's 3.6%.

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 Shayaan is used

Across 1910–2025, Shayaan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 257,952 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Shayaan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shayaan around the world

Where Shayaan 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
    1999–2025
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • France
    2006–2024
    #4,614
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shayaan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,556
Best rank ever
#2,196
2011
Peak year
2011
60 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
777
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Shayaan

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Sibling names for Shayaan

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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