Shann
Shann was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 495 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,825, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1970, the peak
Shann peaked in 1970, when 32 babies were given it (18 boys, #2,200 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,825 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #5,148 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 14 | #3,473 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,408 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,134 | 7 | #5,669 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,152 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,809 | 7 | #5,391 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,945 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,438 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #4,082 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | under 5 | 12 | #3,530 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #4,113 | |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,393 | 5 | #6,710 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,140 | 20 | #2,315 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,800 | 13 | #3,050 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,960 | 11 | #3,290 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,282 | 15 | #2,587 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,844 | 13 | #2,800 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,269 | 18 | #2,264 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,209 | 18 | #2,200 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,869 | 8 | #3,544 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,716 | 14 | #2,294 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,645 | 7 | #3,499 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,795 | 10 | #2,752 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,151 | 11 | #2,596 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,388 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,838 | 5 | #4,537 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,396 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,714 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,110 | 5 | #4,489 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,312 | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,869 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,740 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,564 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,666 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 495 Americans recorded as Shann, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shann, and how old are they?
An estimated 442 Americans named Shann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 48 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 584 people named Shann (298 women and girls, 286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Shann?
Shann is a less common spelling of Shan: SSA has recorded 495 Shann and 3,088 Shan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,083 babies since 1880, Shann is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 231 babies recorded by SSA was a Shann (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Shann and names like it
- Compare Shann and ShanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShann peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shann since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Shann.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shann alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.