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Shayan

#2,163 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Shayan has been given to 2,354 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #2,163 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Shayan, 2025

1 in 49,500

Shayan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shayan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shayan means

Shayan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shayan is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,296 boys were recorded with the name Shayan between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,665 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,775 in 2020 to #2,163 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,974 in 2015 to #2,163 in 2025.

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Shayan between 1995 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1999; its best national rank was #12,472 in 1999.

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 Shayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,163
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shayan 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shayans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shayan was born before 2009 — so the typical Shayan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,296
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2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (660).

Is Shayan 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
−399
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−388
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−189
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.3%
Peak was 2024 (94)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,665
1999

Spellings of Shayan

Shayan is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 64.4% against Shayan's 0.48%.

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 Shayan is used

Across 2016–2025, Shayan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 20,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,250
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Virginia1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Maryland1 in 50,000

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.

Shayan around the world

Where Shayan 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
    1996–2025
    #702
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,186
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shayan

People whose public names include Shayan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shayan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,163
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 388
Best rank ever
#1,665
1999
Peak year
2024
94 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,296
Count in 2025
67

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,472
1999
Peak year
1999
7 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shayan

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

ShalomSharifShamusShakurShamirSharodShakirShaquanShaanShamarShayaShauryaShahidAaryanShadowShainShareefShadeShaheedShanonShayneSharonShaiRayyan

Names with a curve like Shayan

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

CiaranShivEsaiJarethKainoaMalekMuhammedMahdiKekoaYehoshuaTahaCaine

Sibling names for Shayan

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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