Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Shaun
/SHAWN/
Meaning
“God is gracious”
Irish and English form of the Hebrew Yochanan (God is gracious), via the Irish Seán; the Shaun spelling was the dominant anglicisation in the UK and Australia during the 1970s and 1980s.
Nicknames
shawn
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the UK and Australia in the 1970s-80s; feels solidly of that generation.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in the UK and Australia from the 1960s through the 1980s; declining steadily since the 1990s.