Shone
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shone has been given to 386 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1973, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Shone, 2011
1 in 732,000
Shone 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shone over time
In 2011, Shone went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Shone?
Shone had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shone sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shones were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shone was born before 1976 — so the typical Shone is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 59.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 335
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 59.4% of all recorded uses (199).
Is Shone 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 1973 (33)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shone
Shone is not the most common spelling — Shane is, with 77.8% against Shone's 0.14%.
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 Shone is used
Across 1910–2025, Shone was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 628,941 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 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. Shone has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shone around the world
Where Shone 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.
- France1998–2022#6,512in 2022
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Shone by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shone
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shone
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.