Shawna
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 2,082 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 45,531since 1941
Shawna over time
Rank among girls' names. Shawna has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,805 | 62 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,555 | 70 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,227 | 88 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,539 | 142 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,265 | 177 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,180 | 190 | — | |
| 2003 | #941 | 250 | — | |
| 2002 | #896 | 250 | — | |
| 2001 | #763 | 313 | — | |
| 2000 | #691 | 341 | — | |
| 1999 | #620 | 386 | — | |
| 1998 | #556 | 445 | — | |
| 1997 | #516 | 463 | — | |
| 1996 | #468 | 536 | — | |
| 1995 | #425 | 612 | — | |
| 1994 | #338 | 794 | — | |
| 1993 | #314 | 848 | — | |
| 1992 | #306 | 909 | — | |
| 1991 | #281 | 988 | — | |
| 1990 | #249 | 1,125 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #265 | 1,007 | — | |
| 1988 | #239 | 1,102 | — | |
| 1987 | #237 | 1,125 | — | |
| 1986 | #222 | 1,196 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #214 | 1,200 | — | |
| 1984 | #201 | 1,327 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #187 | 1,455 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #162 | 1,770 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #198 | 1,359 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #187 | 1,432 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #177 | 1,548 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #161 | 1,702 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #139 | 2,082 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #167 | 1,508 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #160 | 1,689 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #162 | 1,662 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #188 | 1,403 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #174 | 1,666 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #214 | 1,420 | — | |
| 1970 | #210 | 1,500 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #249 | 1,189 | — | |
| 1968 | #319 | 740 | — | |
| 1967 | #353 | 645 | — | |
| 1966 | #368 | 609 | — | |
| 1965 | #396 | 552 | — | |
| 1964 | #401 | 589 | — | |
| 1963 | #451 | 458 | — | |
| 1962 | #572 | 295 | — | |
| 1961 | #602 | 280 | — | |
| 1960 | #705 | 209 | — | |
| 1959 | #747 | 185 | — | |
| 1958 | #813 | 153 | — | |
| 1957 | #777 | 167 | — | |
| 1956 | #872 | 131 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,010 | 98 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,123 | 77 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,439 | 46 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,469 | 43 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,332 | 49 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,524 | 37 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,603 | 34 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,621 | 33 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shawna! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shawna is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#110 · 1 in 430
- Wisconsin#180 · 1 in 928
- Hawaii#186 · 1 in 628
- New Hampshire#205 · 1 in 1,009
- Pennsylvania#212 · 1 in 1,199
Best ever in a state: #23 in Wyoming, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #110 | 18 | 1 in 430 |
| Wisconsin | #180 | 28 | 1 in 928 |
| Hawaii | #186 | 7 | 1 in 628 |
| New Hampshire | #205 | 5 | 1 in 1,009 |
| Pennsylvania | #212 | 52 | 1 in 1,199 |
| Maine | #214 | 5 | 1 in 967 |
| Minnesota | #246 | 17 | 1 in 1,469 |
| Iowa | #259 | 9 | 1 in 1,576 |
| Kentucky | #266 | 12 | 1 in 1,636 |
| Nebraska | #267 | 6 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Tennessee | #272 | 18 | 1 in 1,628 |
| Oklahoma | #278 | 11 | 1 in 1,425 |
| Ohio | #294 | 33 | 1 in 1,924 |
| Connecticut | #298 | 9 | 1 in 1,825 |
| Kansas | #299 | 8 | 1 in 1,599 |
| Massachusetts | #305 | 18 | 1 in 1,833 |
| Michigan | #316 | 26 | 1 in 2,024 |
| Missouri | #316 | 15 | 1 in 1,973 |
| New Mexico | #332 | 6 | 1 in 1,425 |
| Virginia | #355 | 15 | 1 in 2,273 |
| Oregon | #384 | 8 | 1 in 2,031 |
| Mississippi | #393 | 6 | 1 in 2,015 |
| Arkansas | #404 | 5 | 1 in 2,320 |
| Washington | #409 | 13 | 1 in 2,200 |
| Indiana | #415 | 12 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Louisiana | #425 | 9 | 1 in 2,441 |
| Georgia | #446 | 14 | 1 in 2,923 |
| Colorado | #449 | 8 | 1 in 2,534 |
| Florida | #485 | 23 | 1 in 3,169 |
| Maryland | #507 | 7 | 1 in 3,521 |
| Alabama | #515 | 6 | 1 in 3,458 |
| Illinois | #535 | 21 | 1 in 3,455 |
| Arizona | #541 | 9 | 1 in 3,032 |
| North Carolina | #581 | 9 | 1 in 4,252 |
| California | #619 | 55 | 1 in 4,265 |
| Texas | #724 | 27 | 1 in 5,054 |
| New York | #726 | 20 | 1 in 5,376 |
| New Jersey | #837 | 6 | 1 in 7,135 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shawna
- 4,145 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #10,107)
- 5,654 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #10,107)
- 6,512 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 1956 (#1,010 → #872)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 2004 (#941 → #1,180)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1977 at #139 (2,082 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1956–2003
- Highest: 1 in 736 girls born in 1977 were named Shawna (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.5% of all girls named Shawna (16,180) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 112 | #1,603 (1949) | #3,250 |
| 1950s | 986 | #747 (1959) | #1,111 |
| 1960s | 5,566 | #249 (1969) | #442 |
| 1970s | 16,180 | #139 (1977) | #175 |
| 1980s | 12,973 | #162 (1982) | #211 |
| 1990s | 7,106 | #249 (1990) | #407 |
| 2000s | 2,009 | #691 (2000) | #1,292 |
| 2010s | 483 | #2,136 (2010) | #3,614 |
| 2020s | 116 | #4,453 (2020) | #6,551 |
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.
Shawna in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 2,873 of them was named Shawna, which outranked 97.3% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.