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Shawnee

Girls' name

Southerners

Shawnee has been given to 4,029 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1992, with 228 recorded.

Babies named Shawnee, 2024

1 in 478,000

Shawnee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shawnee: meaning, origin, and history

Southerners

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shawnee means

Shawnee means “southerners”, associated with shawanoki.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Shawnee (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Shawnee is used in English.

Shawnee comes through sjw Shawanwa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,909 girls were recorded with the name Shawnee between 1943 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 228 in 1992; its best national rank was #870 in 1992.

In the United States, 120 boys were recorded with the name Shawnee between 1969 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1974; its best national rank was #3,276 in 1969.

How common is Shawnee?

Shawnee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shawnee 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shawnee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shawnees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shawnee was born before 1990 — so the typical Shawnee is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,891
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (1,427).

Is Shawnee 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 1992 (228)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#870
1992

Spellings of Shawnee

Shawnee is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 33.5% against Shawnee's 2.9%.

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 Shawnee is used

Across 1910–2025, Shawnee was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 81,879 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Oregon1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Shawnee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shawnee around the world

Where Shawnee 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
    1996–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • France
    1994–2005
    #5,270
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1990–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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.

Notable people named Shawnee

People whose public names include Shawnee, 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.

Shawnee 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
#870
1992
Peak year
1992
228 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,909
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,276
1969
Peak year
1974
10 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shawnee

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

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Names with a curve like Shawnee

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

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Sibling names for Shawnee

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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