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How popular is the name Shaan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Shaans are alive today.
Shaan (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 856th in 2025 with 37 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 50 babies were given the name, the 645th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1363 in 2023 before climbing back to the 856th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Shaan is one spelling of a name also recorded as Tion and Xan; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Shaan you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Shaans born in England and Wales are between 9 and 24, and there are at least 1,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Shaan - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Shaan.
How many babies are named Shaan each year?
Includes all spellings: Shaan, Tion, Xan. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Shaan spelling rank?
Where does the Tion spelling rank?
Where does the Xan spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Shaan most popular?
Shaan peaked in 2010, when 56 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Shaan?
At least 1,200 people named Shaan in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Shaan?
Most living Shaans are between 9 and 24; the most common age is about 16.
Is Shaan becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.