Girls' name · since 1975
Shawonna
Shawonna has 29 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1978 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #41,495 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shawonna sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 29 recorded since 1975.
Shawonna has 29 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1989.
- #41,495 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 29 born since 1975
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shawonna ranks #41,495 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 29 born since 1975, peaking in the 1980s.
- #41,495 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shawonna's 29 recorded births place it above 42.52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shawonna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Shawonna's SSA record in two at 1981 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1975, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1978 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Shawonna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1989
- Peak year (1978)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Shawonna by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (16 births, 55% of the file).
1980s was Shawonna's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Shawonna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
13 births
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 16 births (55% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shawonna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.