Shon
Shon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 470th, in 1971.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1971301 births
- Best rank
- #470in 1971
- Since 1950
- 5,521people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,163 boys have been named Shon in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 301 births.
The name has all but left use: 12 births in 2024, against 301 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1970s alone account for 40%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 358 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1971, its biggest year
Shon was the 470th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1971 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Shon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Scottiepeak 1971
- Darrickpeak 1971
- Shawnpeak 1971
- Shadpeak 1971
- Scottypeak 1971
- Lamontpeak 1972
- Errickpeak 1972
- Tyronnepeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.