Shanen
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanen has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1976, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.
Babies named Shanen, 1995
1 in 523,000
Shanen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shanen over time
In 2006, Shanen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shanen?
Shanen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,443 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,443 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanen was born before 1979 — so the typical Shanen is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 48.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 131
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Shanen 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
- —
- 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 1976 (11)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shanen
Shanen is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 55.1% against Shanen's <0.01%.
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.
Shanen around the world
Where Shanen 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.
- France1995–2006#5,579in 2006
- South Australia1996–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shanen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.