# Shon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shon/  
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 | 5,530 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,172 / 358 (6% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 16, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 19 | 2,946 |
| 1968 | 29 | 2,288 |
| 1969 | 21 | 2,997 |
| 1970 | 21 | 3,190 |
| 1971 | 28 | 2,656 |
| 1972 | 18 | 3,517 |
| 1973 | 18 | 3,615 |
| 1974 | 12 | 4,974 |
| 1975 | 19 | 3,617 |
| 1976 | 12 | 5,149 |
| 1977 | 10 | 6,272 |
| 1980 | 6 | 10,186 |
| 1981 | 5 | 11,911 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,626 |
| 1996 | 5 | 15,527 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,198 |
| 2012 | 23 | 4,365 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,616 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,242 |
| 2015 | 16 | 5,705 |
| 2016 | 15 | 6,011 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,722 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,330 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,937 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,198 |
| 2021 | 12 | 7,033 |
| 2022 | 20 | 4,992 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,462 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,203 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,814 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |

## 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.