# Shayan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shayan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,354 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,296 / 58 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,361, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | 15,385 |
| 1996 | 6 | 13,227 |
| 1997 | 6 | 13,459 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,479 |
| 2002 | 5 | 17,697 |
| 2003 | 7 | 13,619 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,379 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,748 |
| 2008 | 7 | 15,154 |
| 2010 | 5 | 19,417 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 56 | 2,312 |
| 2012 | 63 | 2,150 |
| 2013 | 69 | 2,008 |
| 2014 | 78 | 1,879 |
| 2015 | 74 | 1,974 |
| 2016 | 64 | 2,162 |
| 2017 | 60 | 2,235 |
| 2018 | 67 | 2,118 |
| 2019 | 73 | 2,015 |
| 2020 | 86 | 1,775 |
| 2021 | 73 | 2,037 |
| 2022 | 84 | 1,889 |
| 2023 | 84 | 1,891 |
| 2024 | 94 | 1,764 |
| 2025 | 67 | 2,163 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2000 | 4 | 3,247 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 78 | 473 |
| 2012 | 66 | 549 |
| 2013 | 64 | 560 |
| 2014 | 55 | 624 |
| 2015 | 63 | 586 |
| 2016 | 71 | 546 |
| 2017 | 60 | 606 |
| 2018 | 43 | 763 |
| 2019 | 60 | 610 |
| 2020 | 61 | 587 |
| 2021 | 50 | 695 |
| 2022 | 60 | 610 |
| 2023 | 44 | 754 |
| 2024 | 47 | 737 |
| 2025 | 50 | 702 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.