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Shaun is an Anglicized spelling of the Irish name Seán.Alternative spellings include Shawn, Sean, and Shawne.. Along with spelling variants Shawn 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.
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.
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.
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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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Shane is mainly a masculine given name.It is an anglicized version of the Irish name Séaghan/Séan, which itself is cognate to the name John. [1] Shane comes from the way the name Seán is pronounced in the Ulster dialect of the Irish language, as opposed to Shaun or Shawn.