Shaquan
Recorded 1975–2025 · United States
Shaquan was most popular in 1994, when 302 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,276 that year. In 2025 it ranked #14,309, with 12 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,664 people named Shaquan.
Shaquan over time
How old is the name Shaquan?
Shaquan first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1975, which makes it about 50 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 51 of the 51 years since.
How many people are named Shaquan?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,664 American births named Shaquan between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,590 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shaquan in 2025?
12 American babies were named Shaquan in 2025, ranking #14,309 that year.
Is Shaquan getting more or less popular?
Shaquan is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 13 births a year across 2021–2025 against 17 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Shaquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shaquan is a unisex name — 20.2% of the 2,664 Americans given it were girls and 79.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1983 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shaquan?
Roughly 2,590 Americans named Shaquan are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 31 years old, and half are between 27 and 34. That is a narrow band: Shaquan arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shaquan is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org