Shaunna
Shaunna was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 2,936 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Shaunna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 38 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaunna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaunna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,462, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
171 babies in 1978, the peak
Shaunna peaked in 1978, when 171 girls were given it, #863 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,462 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,375 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,744 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,283 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,296 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,695 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,709 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,801 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,775 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 20 | #6,177 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,760 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,641 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,343 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,963 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,702 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,125 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,107 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,077 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,203 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,665 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,336 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,377 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,823 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,327 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,946 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,674 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,615 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,118 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 113 | #1,167 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 139 | #1,044 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,247 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,074 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 168 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 171 | #863 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 107 | #1,168 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,673 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,728 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,525 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,559 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,707 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,524 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,830 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,182 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,007 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,947 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,948 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,663 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,471 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,915 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaunna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaunna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaunna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaunna, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,936 Americans ever recorded as Shaunna. The median Shaunna alive today is 45 years old; half are between 38 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,629 people named Shaunna (2,625 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,821 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 283 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
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 Shaunna born?
The states with the most babies named Shaunna are California, Texas and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 326 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 64 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Shaunna 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 Shaunna?
Shaunna is a less common spelling of Shauna: SSA has recorded 2,936 Shaunna and 28,121 Shauna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 135,429 babies since 1880, Shaunna is the seventh most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 260 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaunna (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 Shaunna
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 Shaunna and names like it
- Compare Shaunna and ShaunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShaunna peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaunna since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shaunna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaunna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.