Shawn vs Shaun - What's the difference?
shawn | shaun | Alternative forms |
, popular in the US in the 1970s.
* 1996 , The Night in Question: Stories , Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
, transferred from the male name.
* 1984 , , Love Medicine , Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
Shaun is a alternative form of shawn.
As proper nouns the difference between shawn and shaun
is that shawn is a given name derived from Irish, popular in the US in the 1970s while Shaun is a given name derived from Irish.shawn
English
Alternative forms
* Sean * ShaunProper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- 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.