Shauna
Shauna was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,371 among girls’ names; 28,121 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,300 Americans named Shauna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 38 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shauna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shauna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shauna is “a female given name from Irish, a modern feminine of Shaun (“Sean”).” Its etymology gives the sense “God is gracious” (literally).
From Shaun + -a, variant of Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Johannes, variant of Ioannes, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, and Sheena.
/ˈʃɔːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shauna?
#9,371 among girls’ names, 2025
Shauna fell from #4,701 in 2015 to #9,371 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 6.8 per million.
1,416 babies in 1979, the peak
Shauna peaked in 1979, when 1,416 babies were given it (1,403 girls, #189 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,371 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,868 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,579 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,108 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,900 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,596 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,529 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,972 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,031 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,587 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,701 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,768 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,322 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,374 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,595 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,353 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,728 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,920 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,802 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,877 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,664 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,385 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,239 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 172 | #1,190 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,100 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,037 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 235 | #901 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 243 | #870 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 289 | #739 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 352 | #638 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 321 | #666 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 331 | #651 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 429 | #556 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 538 | #458 | 0.29 |
| 1991 | 557 | #454 | 0.30 |
| 1990 | 730 | #364 | 0.38 |
| 1989 | 567 | #434 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 689 | #358 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 774 | #313 | 0.45 |
| 1986 | 750 | #319 | 0.44 |
| 1985 | 839 | #294 | 0.49 |
| 1984 | 953 | #257 | 0.57 |
| 1983 | 863 | #272 | 0.52 |
| 1982 | 970 | #256 | 0.57 |
| 1981 | 940 | #266 | 0.56 |
| 1980 | 1,142 | #224 | 0.69 |
| 1979 | 1,403 | #189 | 0.87 |
| 1978 | 1,267 | #202 | 0.83 |
| 1977 | 983 | #253 | 0.64 |
| 1976 | 539 | #381 | 0.37 |
| 1975 | 625 | #347 | 0.43 |
| 1974 | 689 | #323 | 0.47 |
| 1973 | 514 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 1972 | 599 | #366 | 0.39 |
| 1971 | 641 | #369 | 0.39 |
| 1970 | 778 | #337 | 0.45 |
| 1969 | 585 | #389 | 0.35 |
| 1968 | 451 | #453 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 414 | #466 | 0.25 |
| 1966 | 474 | #430 | 0.28 |
| 1965 | 315 | #536 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 336 | #539 | 0.18 |
| 1963 | 317 | #545 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 231 | #676 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 234 | #679 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 203 | #716 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 225 | #667 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 157 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 195 | #713 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 210 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 290 | #539 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 283 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1953 | 183 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 119 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 88 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 125 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 149 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,688 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,928 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,907 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shauna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shauna has been given almost only to girls: 50 boys in 88 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shauna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shauna, and how old are they?
26,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 28,121 Americans ever recorded as Shauna. The median Shauna alive today is 46 years old; half are between 38 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 25,557 people named Shauna (25,529 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 46 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 247 |
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 Shauna born?
The states with the most babies named Shauna are California, Utah and Texas, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,515 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Utah | 2,059 | not ranked | 6.9× |
| Texas | 1,578 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 1,394 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 1,199 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 1,084 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 958 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 826 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 787 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 774 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Shauna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shauna is most over-represented in Utah: since 1938 it was given 6.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shauna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 180,519 babies since 1880, Shauna is the fourth most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 276 babies (4.0%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Shauna
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 Shauna and names like it
- Compare Shauna and ShawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShauna peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shauna since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shauna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shauna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.