Shawne — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shawne

The Social Security Administration has registered 810 babies named Shawne between 1948 and 1995, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawne currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Shawne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 429 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawne performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shawne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawne in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawne 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 810 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.