Shannan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shannan

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,162 babies named Shannan between 1950 and 2012, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shannan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 284 babies received it in a single year. Shannan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 317 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shannan performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shannan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 602 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shannan in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shannan 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 5,162 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.