Shean
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shean has been given to 420 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1970, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Shean, 2009
1 in 764,000
Shean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shean?
Shean 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 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,315 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 397,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,609 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shean sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shean was born before 1979 — so the typical Shean is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 414
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (150).
Is Shean 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 1970 (25)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shean
Shean is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 30.9% against Shean's 0.03%.
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 Shean is used
Across 1910–2025, Shean was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Shean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shean around the world
Where Shean 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.
- France1995–2019#3,917in 2019
- South Australia1987–1987#464in 1987
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.