Shennon
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shennon has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 5 recorded.
Babies named Shennon, 1974
1 in 608,000
Shennon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shennon?
Shennon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 608,000
- 5 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,407 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shennon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shennon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shennons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shennon was born before 1969 — so the typical Shennon is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Shennon 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
- —
- 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 (5)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shennon
Shennon is not the most common spelling — Shannon is, with 89.9% against Shennon'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.
Shennon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shennon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shennon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.