Shanon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shanon

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,817 babies named Shanon between 1944 and 2019, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 285 babies received it in a single year. Shanon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,732 additional births since 1952.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanon performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,071 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shanon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 593 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanon in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanon 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 4,817 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.