Shanen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shanen

The Social Security Administration has registered 131 babies named Shanen between 1968 and 1995, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Shanen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanen performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shanen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanen 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 131 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.