Shāwn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shāwn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 279,685 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: ,92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic )Sean, used mainly in North America. In Canada it is also found as a girl’s name. Shāwn is also written ชอว์น in Thai.
- GYGuyana1 in 533(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 920
- CACanada≈1 in 950
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #416 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 624 (measured from records)
- 1 in 533 (inferred from the name graph)
279,685 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shāwn in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shawn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records),92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic )Sean, used mainly in North America. In Canada it is also found as a girl’s name.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shāwn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #161 | 279,685 | 1 in 1.2K | 253K | Shawn | 624 |
| GB United Kingdom | #310 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | Shawn | 236 |
| CA Canada | #170 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 946 | 5 | Shawn | 296 |
| ZA South Africa | #544 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Shawn | 109 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Shawn | 92 |
| SG Singapore | #104 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 924 | — | Shawn | 128 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,408 | 1 in 533 | 1.4K | — | 11 |
279,685 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shāwn mean, and where does it come from?
- ,92 Anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic )Sean, used mainly in North America. In Canada it is also found as a girl’s name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 1 other source.
- Is Shāwn a male or female name?
- Shāwn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Shāwn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 280 thousand people named Shāwn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shawn. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shāwn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shāwn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 533 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shāwn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 279,685 people named Shāwn in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Shāwn compared with other names?
- In the United States, Shāwn is the 161st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C4%81wnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shāwn” — ranked 191st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.