Shaunessy — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaunessy

The Social Security Administration has registered 69 babies named Shaunessy between 1987 and 2002, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaunessy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Shaunessy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaunessy performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 45 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shaunessy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaunessy 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 69 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.