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Shaunna

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaunna has been given to 2,936 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1978, with 171 recorded.

Babies named Shaunna, 2016

1 in 734,000

Shaunna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaunna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaunna means

Shaunna is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaunna

Wikidata records Shaunna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q106111295, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,936 girls were recorded with the name Shaunna between 1948 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 171 in 1978; its best national rank was #863 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shaunna?

Shaunna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaunna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaunna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaunnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaunna was born before 1981 — so the typical Shaunna is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (977).

Is Shaunna 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (171)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
1978

Spellings of Shaunna

Shaunna is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 15.8% against Shaunna's 1.0%.

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.

Where Shaunna is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaunna was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 114,852 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shaunna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaunna around the world

Where Shaunna 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 & Wales
    1996–2009
    #3,422
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1990–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1982–1996
    #534
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1992–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1990–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shaunna

People whose public names include Shaunna, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shaunna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#863
1978
Peak year
1978
171 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
2,936
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shaunna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shaunna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaunna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shaunna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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