Shanna
Shanna was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,978 among girls’ names; 28,372 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,800 Americans named Shanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shanna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shanna?
#12,978 among girls’ names, 2025
Shanna fell from #7,221 in 2015 to #12,978 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 4.4 per million.
1,855 babies in 1978, the peak
Shanna peaked in 1978, when 1,855 babies were given it (1,845 girls, #149 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,978 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,155 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,257 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,105 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,966 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,444 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,972 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,716 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,252 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,324 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,221 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,767 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,630 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,079 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,454 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,993 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,770 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,572 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,588 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,495 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,585 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,452 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,223 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 152 | #1,277 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,073 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,022 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 238 | #860 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 288 | #733 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 281 | #728 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 350 | #629 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 403 | #583 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 466 | #512 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 589 | #431 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 589 | #430 | 0.31 |
| 1989 | 553 | #441 | 0.30 |
| 1988 | 670 | #364 | 0.38 |
| 1987 | 744 | #328 | 0.43 |
| 1986 | 855 | #289 | 0.50 |
| 1985 | 1,058 | #243 | 0.61 |
| 1984 | 1,217 | #213 | 0.72 |
| 1983 | 1,044 | #237 | 0.62 |
| 1982 | 1,213 | #216 | 0.72 |
| 1981 | 1,255 | #210 | 0.75 |
| 1980 | 1,520 | #181 | 0.92 |
| 1979 | 1,793 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 1,845 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1977 | 1,608 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 690 | #325 | 0.47 |
| 1975 | 601 | #358 | 0.41 |
| 1974 | 660 | #334 | 0.45 |
| 1973 | 642 | #340 | 0.44 |
| 1972 | 611 | #360 | 0.40 |
| 1971 | 603 | #382 | 0.36 |
| 1970 | 759 | #344 | 0.43 |
| 1969 | 606 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1968 | 346 | #520 | 0.21 |
| 1967 | 304 | #539 | 0.18 |
| 1966 | 246 | #605 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 193 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 207 | #721 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 163 | #813 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 125 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 125 | #966 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 103 | #1,060 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,073 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,547 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,192 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,320 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,743 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,349 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,278 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanna has been given almost only to girls: 88 boys in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanna, and how old are they?
26,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 28,372 Americans ever recorded as Shanna. The median Shanna alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 24,889 people named Shanna (24,845 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 76 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,130 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shanna born?
The states with the most babies named Shanna are Texas, California and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,791 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 2,421 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 1,103 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 1,052 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 952 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 942 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 902 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 892 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 886 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 809 | not ranked | 2.6× |
Where Shanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanna is most over-represented in Utah: since 1931 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shanna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 141,420 babies since 1880, Shanna is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 295 babies (2.4%), the seventh most given that year.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shanna and names like it
- Compare Shanna and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShanna peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shanna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shanna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.