Shahana
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shahana has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Shahana, 2023
1 in 663,000
Shahana over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shahana?
Shahana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shahana sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shahanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahana was born before 1994 — so the typical Shahana is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 150
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Shahana rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (9)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shahana
Shahana is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 21.1% against Shahana's 0.07%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shahana around the world
Where Shahana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2023#5,688in 2023
- France2005–2017#6,753in 2017
- Canada1993–2010#3,238in 2010
- South Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shahana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shahana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shahana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.