Shayaan
Masculine · “Worthy”
Shāyān is Persian for worthy — the thing that is fitting, that deserves what it gets. It is a modern name rather than a classical one, ordinary in Iran and Pakistan, and its American arrival is recent.
How old is the name Shayaan?
Shayaan first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Shayaan alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 800 people named Shayaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shayaan most popular?
Shayaan peaked in 2011, reaching #2173 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 3,435 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shāyān to Shayaan
The story of Shayaan
Shayan is a modern Persian given name built on an ordinary Persian adjective, part of a group of names — Shayan, Arman, Kian, Sina, Nima — that became common in Iran in the second half of the twentieth century as families reached for Persian rather than Arabic vocabulary. It spread into Urdu-speaking Pakistan and India as well. American records show it from the 1990s with Iranian and Pakistani immigration, rising steadily, with a peak in 2011 that reflects the community's growth rather than any single bearer.
Meaning
Worthy, deserving, befitting
From Persian shāyān, worthy or suitable, from a verb meaning to be fitting. The reading is settled in Persian and Urdu usage. The doubled a of Shayaan is a South Asian transliteration convention marking the long vowel; Shayan, Shayaan and Shaayan are the same name.
How the name formed
- shāyān
- Shayaan
Related forms: شایان · شایان · Shayan
Pronouncing Shayaan
shah-YAHN
Two syllables, stress on the second, with a long final a. The doubled a is a transliteration device for that length and not a separate syllable.
Nicknames for Shayaan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most boys named
- 201160 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2173reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%16 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shayaan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- شایان in Persian — transliteration
- شایان in Urdu — same name
- Shayan in English — spelling variant
Shayaans among us
people named Shayaan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Shayaan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Shayaan
- #5608
- Shayaan on the 2025 chart
- #845
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Shayaan went to 16 boys in 2025, but Shayan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 83, which makes it the 845th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,763 places above the chart.
- Shayan67
- Shayaan16
About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 106,755 for Shayaan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Adel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shayaan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adel climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adel's path sketches the road Shayaan is walking now.
Shayaan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Shayaan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shayaan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and admirable.
- Shay is a ready-made and currently popular short form.
- Every sound in it exists in English.
- Shayan, Shayaan and Shaayan are three spellings of one name.
- The doubled a will be read as two syllables by English speakers.
- It is unfamiliar outside Iranian and South Asian communities.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shayaans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Shayaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Shayaan?
- Shayaan is one of 2 recorded spellings. Shayan is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 16 for Shayaan.
- How popular is the name Shayaan in 2025?
- Shayaan ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shayaan?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Shayaan — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shayaan with classmates?
- Shayaan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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