Shannin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shannin has been given to 240 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 1969, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Shannin, 2001
1 in 748,000
Shannin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shannin?
Shannin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shannin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shannin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shannins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shannin was born before 1978 — so the typical Shannin is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 240
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (108).
Is Shannin 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 1969 (18)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shannin
Shannin is not the most common spelling — Shannon is, with 79.1% against Shannin's 0.06%.
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.
Shannin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shannin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shannin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.