Shawn Boy Name

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The name Shawn is of English origin, and is an alternate form of Sean. The table below indicates the number of times the name Shawn has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Shawn**
Use of the Name Shawn for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
281,141	279,533	120,933	30,087	12,990	4,898	2,347

The table below indicates the number of times the name Shawn has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Shawn first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1947, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Shawn**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1947	924	58
1948	559	143	960	83
1949	594	131
1950	504	177	818	115
1951	594	136	806	123
1952	505	189	831	122
1953	370	342	703	170
1954	342	432	505	310
1955	312	545	457	394
1956	310	571	377	548
1957	252	904	343	695
1958	219	1,190	342	749
1959	161	1,965	343	766
1960	163	2,049	347	758
1961	143	2,480	305	898
1962	124	2,876	312	899
1963	108	3,459	287	1,019
1964	88	4,388	232	1,400
1965	68	4,918	224	1,449
1966	54	5,714	209	1,491
1967	51	6,137	199	1,598
1968	43	7,466	183	1,750
1969	41	8,268	177	1,823
1970	34	10,928	169	1,969
1971	28	12,813	168	1,862
1972	28	11,277	184	1,574
1973	27	11,429	200	1,286
1974	30	11,429	201	1,267
1975	31	10,668	254	961
1976	34	10,093	293	775
1977	37	9,849	340	666
1978	39	9,271	391	533
1979	43	7,913	444	463
1980	47	7,687	511	387
1981	49	7,067	548	339
1982	52	6,836	589	310
1983	53	6,347	621	280
1984	56	6,036	651	268
1985	55	6,980	596	322
1986	55	7,001	716	251
1987	58	6,207	855	200
1988	61	5,881	898	194
1989	65	5,470
1990	69	5,716
1991	71	5,417
1992	71	5,152
1993	77	4,811
1994	86	4,238
1995	99	3,817
1996	111	3,497
1997	109	3,442
1998	113	3,250
1999	118	3,091
2000	135	2,881
2001	152	2,610
2002	152	2,601
2003	156	2,551
2004	171	2,347
Totals:		281,141		31,067

During the last 125 years, parents have used Shawn as a boy's name about 90% of the time and less frequently (about 9% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Shawn appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 58 times during the last 125 years.

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