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Shevaun

Girls' name

Variant of Shavonne

Shevaun has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1984, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Shevaun, 1990

1 in 658,000

Shevaun over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shevaun: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Shavonne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shevaun means

Shevaun is a variant of Shavonne.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shevaun is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃə.ˈvɑn/ and /ʃə.ˈvɒn/ for Shevaun.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shevaun → Shavonne → Siobhán. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in Irish with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shavonne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 girls were recorded with the name Shevaun between 1956 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1984; its best national rank was #5,835 in 1984.

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 Shevaun?

Shevaun had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 658,000
6 of 3,949,959 births
Among girls only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
456,318 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shevaun 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 1990 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 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shevaun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shevauns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shevaun was born before 1981 — so the typical Shevaun is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Shevaun 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (12)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,835
1984

Spellings of Shevaun

Shevaun is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 82.3% against Shevaun's 2.8%.

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.

Shevaun around the world

Where Shevaun 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
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #655
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #1,902
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1973–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shevaun 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
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Best rank ever
#5,835
1984
Peak year
1984
12 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shevaun

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

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Sibling names for Shevaun

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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