Shayan
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,296since 1982
Shayan over time
Rank among boys' names. Shayan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,145 | 67 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,752 | 94 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,875 | 84 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,875 | 84 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,026 | 73 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,766 | 86 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,001 | 73 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,101 | 67 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,217 | 60 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,145 | 64 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,955 | 74 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,873 | 78 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,989 | 69 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,132 | 63 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,284 | 56 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | — | #1,925 | 74 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | — | #2,139 | 63 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,037 | 65 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,889 | 67 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,943 | 57 |
| 2001 | — | #1,960 | 55 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,848 | 57 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #1,655 | 64 |
| 1998 | — | #1,987 | 48 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,736 | 51 |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,007 | 40 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,002 | 39 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,190 | 33 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,989 | 20 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,961 | 18 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shayan! It came in at #5,003, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shayan
- 393 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #2,145)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#1,766 → #2,145)
- 190 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1999 at #1,655 (64 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,329 boys born in 2024 were named Shayan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,655 in 1999, was only 1 in 30,002 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Shayan (660) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 79 | #2,961 (1988) | #4,343 |
| 1990s | 457 | #1,655 (1999) | #1,948 |
| 2000s | 612 | #1,848 (2000) | #2,005 |
| 2010s | 660 | #1,873 (2014) | #2,098 |
| 2020s | 488 | #1,752 (2024) | #1,907 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shayan in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 290,118 of them was named Shayan, which outranked 25.3% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,836Zikeya7
- #10,836Zoraya7
- #10,836Zuly7
- #12,070Shayan6
- #12,070Aalexis6
- #12,070Aalexus6
- #12,070Aalia6
- #13,724Aalaiyah5
- #13,724Aalyssa5
- #13,724Aasia5
Tied with 1,653 names at #12,070; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 34,275 of them was named Shayan, which outranked 83.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,730Tavaris56
- #1,730Tzvi56
- #1,730Yash56
- #1,753Shayan55
- #1,753Arik55
- #1,753Baily55
- #1,753Buddy55
- #1,773Basil54
- #1,773Darious54
- #1,773Dayquan54
Tied with 19 names at #1,753; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.