Shawna
Shawna was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,785 among girls’ names; 45,640 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,200 Americans named Shawna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 38 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shawna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shawna is “a female given name, variant of Shauna.”
From Shawn + -a. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
/ˈʃɔːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shawna?
#10,785 among girls’ names, 2025
Shawna fell from #3,643 in 2015 to #10,785 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 5.6 per million.
2,090 babies in 1977, the peak
Shawna peaked in 1977, when 2,090 babies were given it (2,082 girls, #139 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,785 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,124 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,713 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,581 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,138 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,528 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,886 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,125 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,790 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,699 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,643 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,704 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,307 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,828 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,585 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,240 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,806 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,633 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,544 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,271 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,184 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 250 | #942 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 250 | #897 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 313 | #766 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 341 | #692 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 386 | #620 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 445 | #556 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 463 | #517 | 0.27 |
| 1996 | 536 | #468 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 612 | #425 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 794 | #338 | 0.44 |
| 1993 | 848 | #315 | 0.47 |
| 1992 | 909 | #306 | 0.49 |
| 1991 | 988 | #283 | 0.53 |
| 1990 | 1,125 | #249 | 0.59 |
| 1989 | 1,007 | #265 | 0.55 |
| 1988 | 1,102 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1987 | 1,125 | #237 | 0.65 |
| 1986 | 1,196 | #222 | 0.70 |
| 1985 | 1,200 | #215 | 0.70 |
| 1984 | 1,327 | #201 | 0.79 |
| 1983 | 1,455 | #187 | 0.87 |
| 1982 | 1,770 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 1,359 | #198 | 0.81 |
| 1980 | 1,432 | #188 | 0.86 |
| 1979 | 1,548 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 1,702 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 2,082 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 1,508 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 1,689 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1974 | 1,662 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1973 | 1,403 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 1,666 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1971 | 1,420 | #214 | 0.85 |
| 1970 | 1,500 | #210 | 0.86 |
| 1969 | 1,189 | #249 | 0.70 |
| 1968 | 740 | #319 | 0.45 |
| 1967 | 645 | #353 | 0.39 |
| 1966 | 609 | #368 | 0.36 |
| 1965 | 552 | #396 | 0.31 |
| 1964 | 589 | #401 | 0.31 |
| 1963 | 458 | #454 | 0.24 |
| 1962 | 295 | #572 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 280 | #604 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 209 | #706 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 185 | #749 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 153 | #816 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 167 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 131 | #873 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,454 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,480 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,203 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,689 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,984 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shawna has been given almost only to girls: 109 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shawna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawna, and how old are they?
43,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 45,640 Americans ever recorded as Shawna. The median Shawna alive today is 46 years old; half are between 38 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 39,653 people named Shawna (39,613 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 43,753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 373 |
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 Shawna born?
The states with the most babies named Shawna are California, Texas and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6,208 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 2,790 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 2,591 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,959 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 1,704 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 1,499 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 1,455 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,419 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 1,334 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,296 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Shawna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shawna is most over-represented in Montana: since 1941 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shawna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,966 babies since 1880, Shawna is the most given (79% 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 Shawna
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 Shawna and names like it
- Compare Shawna and ShawneeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawna peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawna since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shawna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shawna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.