Meaning and history
Seán, together with the variants Shawn and Shaun, began spreading beyond Ireland into the wider English-speaking world around the middle of the 20th century.
20062006: 6,643 births, rank #68
2007: 6,244 births, rank #76
2008: 5,471 births, rank #83
2009: 4,339 births, rank #97
2010: 3,743 births, rank #102
20112011: 3,192 births, rank #125
2012: 2,777 births, rank #145
2013: 2,203 births, rank #185
2014: 2,125 births, rank #193
2015: 1,895 births, rank #210
20162016: 1,671 births, rank #233
2017: 1,481 births, rank #251
2018: 1,325 births, rank #268
2019: 1,128 births, rank #301
2020: 976 births, rank #334
20212021: 900 births, rank #362
2022: 803 births, rank #397
2023: 741 births, rank #427
2024: 730 births, rank #435
20252025: 616 births, rank #489
Sean moved from #435 to #489 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1990, with 12,018 births.