Shannie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shannie has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1971, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Shannie, 1996
1 in 729,000
Shannie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shannie?
Shannie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shannie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shannie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shannies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shannie was born before 1974 — so the typical Shannie is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 62.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 91
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 62.6% of all recorded uses (57).
Is Shannie 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1971 (10)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shannie
Shannie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 37.7% against Shannie'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.
Shannie around the world
Where Shannie 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 & Wales1996–2002#4,137in 2002
- Canada1992–2005#2,828in 2005
- South Australia1989–1989#692in 1989
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shannie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shannie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shannie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.