Shavonna
Shavonna was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 799 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shavonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shavonna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,406, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1992, the peak
Shavonna peaked in 1992, when 47 girls were given it, #2,640 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #19,406 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,961 | 3.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,270 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,271 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,466 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,608 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,374 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,655 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,171 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,143 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 18 | #5,763 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,792 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,713 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,758 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,772 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,756 | 24.3 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,640 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,143 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,838 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,515 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,579 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,018 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,961 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,497 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,596 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,529 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,150 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,607 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,487 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,718 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,177 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,887 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,561 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,899 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,409 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,297 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,365 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,459 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shavonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shavonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shavonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shavonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 776 Americans named Shavonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 643 people named Shavonna (642 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,708 babies since 1880, Shavonna is the second most given (17% 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 Shavonna
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 Shavonna and names like it
- Compare Shavonna and ShavonneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShavonna peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shavonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shavonna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shavonna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.