Shaughnessy — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaughnessy

The Social Security Administration has registered 91 babies named Shaughnessy between 1985 and 2009, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaughnessy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Shaughnessy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaughnessy performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 55 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shaughnessy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaughnessy 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 91 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.