Sean

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Irish

Meaning

Sean, also spelled Seรกn or Sรฉan in Hiberno-English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name Yohanan, Seรกn and Sรฉan, rendered John in English and JohannesThe Norman French Jehan is another version.

From Wikipedia

Sean first appears in the data in 1962 and has been recorded in 49 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1989 with 68 babies (rank #242 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Sean

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Sean yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

1,336
Total babies (all years)
49
Years in the data
68
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19621#1,066
19651#1,121
19661#1,157
19671#1,178
19683#915
19693#931
19704#871
19731#1,111
19741#1,133
19752#1,102
19762#1,098
19772#1,099
19782#1,125
19792#1,140
19805#858
19819#684
19829#685
198318#487
198418#498
198520#481
198626#436
198731#404
198846#325
198968#242
199053#303
199147#334
199248#333
199357#287
199462#273
199545#342
199663#276
199758#289
199857#305
199951#338
200066#282
200141#384
200252#327
200336#406
200440#379
200520#544
200642#335
200740#342
200829#421
200927#416
201034#363
201122#463
201227#389
201321#458
201422#436