Shawni
Shawni was last recorded in 1997, when 7 babies were given it; 230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shawni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,890, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1992, the peak
Shawni peaked in 1992, when 35 girls were given it, #3,255 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #11,890 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,714 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,441 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,689 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,200 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,255 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,919 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,790 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,927 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,498 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #11,862 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,836 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,423 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,036 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,847 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,160 | 6.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,371 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,825 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,882 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,654 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,435 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,723 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,396 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,458 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,414 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shawni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shawni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawni, and how old are they?
An estimated 218 Americans named Shawni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 34 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 272 people named Shawni (267 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Shawni?
Shawni is a less common spelling of Shawnee: SSA has recorded 230 Shawni and 4,029 Shawnee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,791 babies since 1880, Shawni is the eighth most given (<1% 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 Shawni
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kirsti | 1,010 |
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 Shawni and names like it
- Compare Shawni and ShawneeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShawni peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shawni.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shawni alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.