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Shawnna

Girls' name

God is gracious, through Shauna

Shawnna has been given to 2,861 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1977, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Shawnna, 2017

1 in 511,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shawnna: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Shauna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shawnna means

Shawnna belongs to the name family reached through Shawnna → Shauna → Seán. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shawnna is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shauna and Seán.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,861 girls were recorded with the name Shawnna between 1956 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1977; its best national rank was #963 in 1977.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shawnna?

Shawnna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shawnna 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shawnna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shawnnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shawnna was born before 1980 — so the typical Shawnna is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,861
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (1,037).

Is Shawnna 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 1977 (144)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#963
1977

Spellings of Shawnna

Shawnna is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 14.2% against Shawnna's 0.89%.

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 Shawnna is used

Across 1910–2025, Shawnna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 107,104 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Shawnna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shawnna around the world

Where Shawnna 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
    2008–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1992–1995
    #2,277
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shawnna

People whose public names include Shawnna, 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.

Shawnna 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
#963
1977
Peak year
1977
144 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
2,861
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shawnna

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

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Names with a curve like Shawnna

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

JennifferLaticiaShandraMeridithBrittTarraShaneJameyLatinaKieshaDeliciaKeesha

Sibling names for Shawnna

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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