Around the globe, شوفان (Chauvin 
, شوفان 
, Chuvin 
) is a rare epicene given name. The first name شوفان is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare gender-neutral name, France, where it is a very rare epicene name, and the United States, where it is an extremely rare dominantly boy's, but uncommonly feminine name. Much more prevalently, شوفان is the last name as well as the forename.