Shoshana
#1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,682since 1948
Shoshana over time
Rank among girls' names. Shoshana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,673 | 123 |
| 2024 | #1,779 | 113 |
| 2023 | #1,656 | 125 |
| 2022 | #1,456 | 152 |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 146 |
| 2020 | #1,608 | 130 |
| 2019 | #1,548 | 139 |
| 2018 | #1,840 | 110 |
| 2017 | #1,614 | 134 |
| 2016 | #1,908 | 105 |
| 2015 | #1,839 | 112 |
| 2014 | #1,757 | 118 |
| 2013 | #2,096 | 91 |
| 2012 | #2,003 | 97 |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 |
| 2010 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2009 | #1,956 | 106 |
| 2008 | #2,054 | 100 |
| 2007 | #2,177 | 91 |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 85 |
| 2005 | #1,624 | 124 |
| 2004 | #1,746 | 110 |
| 2003 | #1,733 | 109 |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 |
| 2001 | #1,739 | 103 |
| 2000 | #1,776 | 98 |
| 1999 | #1,753 | 91 |
| 1998 | #1,587 | 103 |
| 1997 | #1,261 | 141 |
| 1996 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 1995 | #1,426 | 114 |
| 1994 | #1,890 | 75 |
| 1993 | #1,629 | 93 |
| 1992 | #1,452 | 109 |
| 1991 | #1,584 | 96 |
| 1990 | #1,568 | 97 |
| 1989 | #1,574 | 89 |
| 1988 | #1,564 | 84 |
| 1987 | #1,424 | 92 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 |
| 1985 | #1,382 | 93 |
| 1984 | #1,225 | 106 |
| 1983 | #1,485 | 77 |
| 1982 | #1,325 | 94 |
| 1981 | #1,490 | 81 |
| 1980 | #1,502 | 79 |
| 1979 | #1,623 | 69 |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 |
| 1977 | #1,596 | 67 |
| 1976 | #1,433 | 73 |
| 1975 | #1,604 | 61 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 |
| 1973 | #1,773 | 49 |
| 1972 | #1,890 | 44 |
| 1971 | #2,212 | 36 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 |
| 1969 | #2,171 | 34 |
| 1968 | #2,205 | 30 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shoshana! It came in at #4,205, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shoshana is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#153 · 1 in 693
- New York#441 · 1 in 2,053
- Maryland#811 · 1 in 3,691
- Pennsylvania#1,397 · 1 in 9,596
- Florida#1,882 · 1 in 14,356
Best ever in a state: #124 in New Jersey, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #153 | 53 | 1 in 693 |
| New York | #441 | 39 | 1 in 2,053 |
| Maryland | #811 | 6 | 1 in 3,691 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,397 | 5 | 1 in 9,596 |
| Florida | #1,882 | 6 | 1 in 14,356 |
| California | #2,594 | 7 | 1 in 24,825 |
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See more about Shoshana
- 106 spots since 2024 (#1,779 → #1,673)
- 65 spots since 2020 (#1,608 → #1,673)
- 166 spots since 2015 (#1,839 → #1,673)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1984 at #1,225 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,790 girls born in 2022 were named Shoshana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,067 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,225 in 1984, was only 1 in 15,885 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.9% of all girls named Shoshana (1,130) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #4,205 (1948) | #4,205 |
| 1950s | 81 | #3,104 (1959) | #4,554 |
| 1960s | 184 | #2,171 (1969) | #3,230 |
| 1970s | 557 | #1,433 (1976) | #1,786 |
| 1980s | 885 | #1,225 (1984) | #1,439 |
| 1990s | 1,025 | #1,261 (1997) | #1,566 |
| 2000s | 1,024 | #1,624 (2005) | #1,887 |
| 2010s | 1,130 | #1,548 (2019) | #1,823 |
| 2020s | 789 | #1,456 (2022) | #1,607 |
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.
Shoshana in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 10,790 of them was named Shoshana, which outranked 91.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,451Milagros153
- #1,451Mirabel153
- #1,451Valkyrie153
- #1,456Shoshana152
- #1,456Caylee152
- #1,456Eliyanah152
- #1,456Ireland152
- #1,463Amarah151
- #1,463Avalyn151
- #1,463Chava151
Tied with 6 names at #1,456; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.