Shanan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shanan

The Social Security Administration has registered 745 babies named Shanan between 1955 and 1998, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 53 babies received it in a single year. Shanan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 123 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanan performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 365 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shanan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanan in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 745 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.