Shaun
24
Babies in 2024
-61%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 773
-11%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Shaun
Shaun peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (773 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 24 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Shaun reached its peak in 1996, when 773 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #76 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 24 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 6,291 boys have been officially registered with the name Shaun in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 467 boys were registered with the name, starting from 61 in 2014 and ending at 24 in 2024.