Shan means coral — the red-pink treasure of the sea, prized for beauty. It carries warmth and rarity.
Shan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shan reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.