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Ian vs Shawn - What's the difference?

ian | shawn |

As a determiner ian

is .

As an adverb ian

is .

As a proper noun shawn is

, popular in the us in the 1970s.

ian

English

Alternative forms

* Iain

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1975 , , World of Wonders , ISBN 0670817902, page 736
  • “If you want a Scotch name why don’t you call him Jock?” Macgregor looked disgusted. “Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian'. If you want to call him ' Ian Fetch, I shall say no more.”

    References

    * Concerning the names Iain, Ian, and Eoin by Josh Mittleman

    Anagrams

    * * *

    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