Shavanna
Shavanna was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shavanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shavanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,782, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1990, the peak
Shavanna peaked in 1990, when 17 girls were given it, #5,492 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #15,782 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,246 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,966 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,888 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,461 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,363 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,164 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,419 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,317 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,502 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 17 | #5,492 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,465 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,086 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,258 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,045 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,982 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,316 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shavanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shavanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shavanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shavanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 153 Americans named Shavanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 31 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Shavanna (168 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,235 babies since 1880, Shavanna is the fourth most given (3.7% of them).
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 Shavanna
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 Shavanna and names like it
- Compare Shavanna and ShavonneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShavanna peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shavanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shavanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.