Shona

Where Shona comes from

Scottish Anglicized form of Seonag ( =Joan) and an American variant of Shauna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Shona
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Shona through the years
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #844
    160 babies named Shona, the most in any year.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,527.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Shona in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.