Shanon
Shanon was last recorded in 2019, when 11 babies were given it; 6,549 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,080 Americans named Shanon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 42 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,608, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
374 babies in 1970, the peak
Shanon peaked in 1970, when 374 babies were given it (285 girls, #610 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,608 | 6 | #11,911 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,218 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,922 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,121 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,397 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,342 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,434 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,080 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,807 | 6 | #11,826 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,265 | 9 | #8,183 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | #10,555 | 9 | #8,052 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,010 | 12 | #6,186 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,342 | 9 | #7,531 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,108 | 16 | #4,851 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,430 | 13 | #5,526 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,877 | 10 | #6,434 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,553 | 17 | #4,167 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,286 | 13 | #4,905 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,076 | 12 | #5,124 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,868 | 11 | #5,441 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,837 | 13 | #4,745 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,564 | 14 | #4,406 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,288 | 30 | #2,451 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,282 | 16 | #3,783 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,120 | 26 | #2,610 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,973 | 22 | #2,873 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,632 | 25 | #2,422 |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,369 | 22 | #2,540 |
| 1986 | 98 | #1,344 | 22 | #2,494 |
| 1985 | 124 | #1,154 | 22 | #2,415 |
| 1984 | 149 | #972 | 32 | #1,791 |
| 1983 | 141 | #1,008 | 34 | #1,705 |
| 1982 | 132 | #1,080 | 37 | #1,646 |
| 1981 | 163 | #924 | 50 | #1,328 |
| 1980 | 178 | #865 | 64 | #1,142 |
| 1979 | 182 | #857 | 72 | #1,043 |
| 1978 | 194 | #787 | 70 | #1,049 |
| 1977 | 232 | #677 | 86 | #919 |
| 1976 | 236 | #655 | 97 | #849 |
| 1975 | 181 | #780 | 100 | #835 |
| 1974 | 200 | #721 | 87 | #860 |
| 1973 | 165 | #797 | 71 | #960 |
| 1972 | 185 | #756 | 87 | #866 |
| 1971 | 211 | #721 | 88 | #872 |
| 1970 | 285 | #610 | 89 | #856 |
| 1969 | 200 | #711 | 89 | #821 |
| 1968 | 155 | #815 | 48 | #1,081 |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,202 | 29 | #1,440 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,546 | 32 | #1,364 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,617 | 29 | #1,451 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,684 | 19 | #1,887 |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,447 | 17 | #2,035 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,797 | 12 | #2,483 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,464 | 7 | #3,612 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,803 | 7 | #3,613 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,660 | 8 | #3,246 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,935 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,209 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,030 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,823 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,113 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,078 | 5 | #4,266 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,752 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,911 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,760 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,160 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,908 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,700 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,141 | 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 Shanon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,549 Americans recorded as Shanon, 74% are girls and 26% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shanon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanon, and how old are they?
6,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,549 Americans ever recorded as Shanon. The median Shanon alive today is 49 years old; half are between 42 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 6,601 people named Shanon (5,172 women and girls, 1,429 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 373 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,610 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 341 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23 |
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 Shanon born?
The states with the most babies named Shanon are California, Texas and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 685 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 311 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 221 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 203 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 183 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 175 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 174 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 171 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 83 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Shanon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shanon?
Shanon is a less common spelling of Shannon: SSA has recorded 6,549 Shanon and 348,161 Shannon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 364,293 babies since 1880, Shanon is the second most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 116 babies recorded by SSA was a Shanon (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shanon
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 Shanon and names like it
- Compare Shanon and ShannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShanon peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanon since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Shanon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shanon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.