Shavonna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shavonna

The Social Security Administration has registered 799 babies named Shavonna between 1969 and 2010, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shavonna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 47 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shavonna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 300 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shavonna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Shavonna in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shavonna 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 799 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.