Shaw
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About 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.
Shaw for boys#4836 US
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 for girls#14682 US
Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.
Pronounced SHAW.
As of October 2026, Shaw ranked #4836 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1742 in 1974.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,111 | 25 | 13 |
| 2015 | #3,576 | 31 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | #3,425 | 33 | 17.4 |
| 2017 | #3,874 | 28 | 15.1 |
| 2018 | #3,591 | 31 | 17.1 |
| 2019 | #3,622 | 31 | 17.3 |
| 2020 | #3,021 | 39 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | #3,564 | 32 | 18.3 |
| 2022 | #3,452 | 34 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | #4,195 | 26 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | #4,289 | 25 | 14.5 |
| 2025 | #4,836 | 21 | 12.3 |
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- Shaw CliftonBoy
Irish Salvation Army leader
- Shaw GrigsbyBoy
American "Bass Master" pro fisherman
- Eric Stanley "Shaw" TaylorBoy
English actor
- Walter Shaw SparrowBoy
British writer on art and architecture
- George Bernard ShawBoy
Irish novelist and playwright; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Shaw in pop culture
- Shaw MooreBoy
minister in film "Footloose"
- Shaun "Shaw"Boy
character in the YouTube series "Most Popular Girls in School"
- Miles ShawBoy
minor character on TV's "The 100"
- Deke ShawBoy
character on TV's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."