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In all the world, Shain (Shain , シャイン , Шаин ) is a common epicene forename. The first name Shain is characteristic of Maldives, where it is quite a rare male name, Oman, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely feminine name, and Qatar, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but seldom feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in India, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Much less frequently, Shain is the last name as well as the forename.
Shain is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Shane Walsh , the fictional character in The Walking Dead universe; Shain , the fictional ogre in Chaos&Evolutions; Shane McCutcheon , the fictional character from the television series The L Word; Shane Schofield , the main character in four books by Australian author Matthew Reilly and Shane Donovan , character in Days of Our Lives, among other works.