Shiona
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shiona has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1981, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Shiona, 2002
1 in 747,000
Shiona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shiona?
Shiona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shiona sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shionas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiona was born before 1981 — so the typical Shiona is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 79.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 24
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 79.2% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Shiona 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 1981 (19)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shiona
Shiona is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 14.8% against Shiona'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.
Shiona around the world
Where Shiona 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 & Wales1996–2002#4,137in 2002
- Scotland1974–1988#577in 1988
- Ireland1979–1979#467in 1979
- South Australia1975–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office 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.
Shiona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shiona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shiona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.