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Shawn - What does it mean?

Definition of 'Shawn'

English

Alternative forms

* Sean * Shaun

Proper noun

(en-proper noun)
  • , popular in the US in the 1970s.
  • * 1996 , The Night in Question: Stories , Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
  • Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N . Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
  • , transferred from the male name.
  • * 1984 , , Love Medicine , Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
  • Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn , like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.

    Derived terms

    * Deshawn * Shawna

    Similar to 'Shawn'

    Shaun, Siouan, Sean, Swan, Shan, Sion, Saan, Sian, Suwon, Sheen, Shown, Swain