Shaw
With the current taste for last names first, this sounds a lot cooler than Shawn; it also has creative connections to the great Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, novelist Irwin Shaw, and Big Band Era clarinetist/bandleader and one-time Ava Gardner husband Artie Shaw.
Since Shaw, like all the other names in this book, has never appeared in the Top 1000, a boy given this name could really make it his own.
Shaw
Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.
