Shanon
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #10,803
Given to girls 73.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 285 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,817since 1944
Shanon over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | — | #10,728 | 6 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #2,275 | 58 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #2,270 | 57 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #2,101 | 62 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #1,965 | 65 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #1,363 | 100 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #1,343 | 98 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #1,149 | 124 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #969 | 149 | #1,764 | 32 |
| 1983 | #1,005 | 141 | #1,687 | 34 |
| 1982 | #1,079 | 132 | #1,622 | 37 |
| 1981 | #920 | 163 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #862 | 178 | #1,133 | 64 |
| 1979 | #854 | 182 | #1,040 | 72 |
| 1978 | #784 | 194 | #1,040 | 70 |
| 1977 | #675 | 232 | #913 | 86 |
| 1976 | #654 | 236 | #845 | 97 |
| 1975 | #778 | 181 | #831 | 100 |
| 1974 | #720 | 200 | #856 | 87 |
| 1973 | #795 | 165 | #957 | 71 |
| 1972 | #753 | 185 | #859 | 87 |
| 1971 | #718 | 211 | #869 | 88 |
| 1970 | #609 | 285 | #854 | 89 |
| 1969 | #708 | 200 | #817 | 89 |
| 1968 | #813 | 155 | #1,068 | 48 |
| 1967 | #1,196 | 79 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #1,532 | 53 | #1,345 | 32 |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 | #1,429 | 29 |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 | #1,850 | 19 |
| 1963 | #1,435 | 60 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1962 | #2,741 | 20 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,411 | 25 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,596 | 20 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #1,908 | 33 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,168 | 26 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanon! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shanon is popular in 1944
No state had 5 or more girls named Shanon in 1944, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shanon
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
- Biggest jump: 383 spots in 1968 (#1,196 → #813)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1985 (#969 → #1,149)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1970 at #609 (285 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1968–1981
- Highest: 1 in 6,134 girls born in 1970 were named Shanon (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 335,673 girls born in 2019 (0.00%)
- 43.0% of all girls named Shanon (2,071) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 23 | #4,345 (1947) | #4,709 |
| 1950s | 191 | #1,908 (1958) | #2,634 |
| 1960s | 709 | #708 (1969) | #1,683 |
| 1970s | 2,071 | #609 (1970) | #734 |
| 1980s | 1,230 | #862 (1980) | #1,227 |
| 1990s | 451 | #2,101 (1990) | #2,837 |
| 2000s | 121 | #5,795 (2003) | #9,796 |
| 2010s | 21 | #14,558 (2014) | #15,990 |
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.
Shanon in 1944
Top girls' names in 1944
More about 1944
girls
1,327,223 girls got a published name in 1944; 1 in 265,445 of them was named Shanon, which outranked 12.8% of the 5,243 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 669 names at #4,574; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.