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Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, [1] [2] is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן ), Seán (anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant; [3] anglicized Shane/Shayne), rendered John in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages.
The name Shawn was widely used by the 1940s for children born in the United States. Along with spelling variants Sean and Shaun, the name was among the top 1,000 names for American boys by 1950 and, with all spellings combined, was a top 10 name for American boys in 1971.
These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same). Excluded are the numerous spellings which fail to make the pronunciation obvious without actually being at odds with convention: for example, the pronunciation / s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / [ 1 ] [ 2 ] of ...
There's also Sean Astin, who played Sam Gamgee in LOTR; I've always heard his name pronounced "shawn" (sorry, I'm a rhotic speaker, so "shorn" is just wrong for me!). And Sean Lennon, whose only connection with Ireland is that his father was from Liverpool. (Both of the latter seem to have been named Sean after their famous fathers named John.)
Raised in Georgia, Charlyn Marshall (Chan is a childhood nickname that is pronounced “Shawn”) relocated to New York in the early ‘90s and was adopted by the city’s indie-rock community ...
Sean was born on Oct. 9, 1975, which also happened to be John's 35th birthday. Sean, too, is a talented musician. He has released four solo albums, as well as five with his mother and three with ...
Sean, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Shayne (anglicisations) Derived from the Anglo-Norman Jehan, or Modern French Jean; from the Latin Johannes, ultimately derived from the Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan. [319] Séafra Geoffrey, Jeffrey (English equivalents) Derived from Geoffrey. [320] Séamas Séamus: James (English equivalent) Derived from James. [321 ...
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