Shayan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Shayan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Shayan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #458 in 2010, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#458highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2000	#3247
2005	#4798
2007	#5201
2010	#4688
2013	#5742

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #587 among boys in England and Wales, #741 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #458 among boys in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Shayan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,291 births with the name.

Shayan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Shayan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#458 (2010)	#737 (2024)	29 of 29	1,291 (1996–2024)	80 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3247 (2000)	#5742 (2013)	6 of 16	20 (1998–2013)	4 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#741 (2020)	#829 (2025)	2 of 6	6 (2020–2025)	3 (2020)

Shayan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Shayan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	32	4 of 10	8
2000s	357	10 of 10	36
2010sbusiest	640	10 of 10	64
2020s	262	5 of 10	52

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 64 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Shayan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #458 in England and Wales in 2010.

Shayan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#737	47	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#754	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#610	60	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#695	50	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#587	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#610	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#606	60	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#546	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#586	63	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#624	55	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#560	64	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#549	66	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#473	78	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#458	80	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#524	66	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#640	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#551	56	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#596	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#788	30	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#790	27	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#615	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#848	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #458, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Shaya · #1369, 27y
Shayaan · #598, 26y
Shaye · #914, 29y
Shayen · #2335, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Blaise · #459, 30y
Cloe · #457, 30y
Sayed · #459, 29y
Haya · #460, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jaya · #458, 29y
Leen · #458, 24y
Waqas · #458, 16y
Blaise · #459, 30y

Shayan was ranked #458 in England and Wales · Boys in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Shayan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Shayan without appearing here.

Shayan moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #848 and #3225.
Joakim Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1078 and #3134.
Malin Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1078 and #3134.
Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2863 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1241 and #3036.

Moved ahead of Shayan

Arlo Compare
In 2007 they stood at #551 and #651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #640 and #567.
Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #596 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #551 and #509.
Kasper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #549 and #592 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #560 and #560.

Moved the opposite way to Shayan

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Shayan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Shayan went from #2863 to #737 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #458 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Shayan

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shayan across 3 official records

Shayan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Shayan across 3 official records

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