Shannen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shannen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,921 babies named Shannen between 1961 and 2023, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shannen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 216 babies received it in a single year. Shannen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 150 additional births since 1966.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shannen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 979 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shannen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 222 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shannen in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shannen 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 1,921 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.