Shayen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- shy-AAN
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Shayen is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “worthy, deserving”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Shayen mean?
Persian: spelling of Shayan
“worthy, deserving”
From Persian shayan, worthy or deserving, used in Iranian and South Asian families.
Meaning borrowed from Shayan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Shayen a girl's or a boy's name?
Shayen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shayen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadymuch the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Shayen, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,502nd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Shayen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 84 boys in the UK were given Shayen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #493, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Shayen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #3,466 |
| 2012 | 7 | #2,849 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #2,873 |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
Names like Shayen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad Musa Zayan Zayaan Rayyan Ibrahim Syed Yahya Ayaan Zayd Ahmed Mustafa
Other spellings of Shayen
Names related to Shayen
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shayen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shayen, updated 20 October 2026.