Shanara

Peak · girls
1978 · 13 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
241
since 1975

Shanara over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shanara has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #4,931, 1978girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2004#14,1796
2003#13,8446
2002#13,5956
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1999#12,6886
1998#12,4266
1997#12,0706
1996#5,53117
1995#13,3865
1994#6,31914
1993#10,5887
1992#8,06510
1991#5,39917
1990#6,46513
1989#6,16013
1988#6,66611
1987#7,9878
1986#7,1349
1985#6,03111
1984#6,8109
1983#5,14813
1982#7,4698
1981#8,1287
1980#10,3925
1979#10,2105
1978#4,93113
1977#9,6525
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five girls were named Shanara! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Shanara is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Shanara in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shanara
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1978 at #4,931 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 103,118
  • Highest: 1 in 103,118 girls born in 1996 were named Shanara (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 306,042 girls born in 2004 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,931 in 1978, was only 1 in 117,835 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 41.9% of all girls named Shanara (101) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s28#4,931 (1978)#8,465
1980s94#5,148 (1983)#7,193
1990s101#5,399 (1991)#9,294
2000s18#13,595 (2002)#13,873

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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