Shianna
Shianna was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,909 among girls’ names; 934 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shianna?
#16,909 among girls’ names, 2025
Shianna rose from #18,735 in 2015 to #16,909 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
63 babies in 1997, the peak
Shianna peaked in 1997, when 63 girls were given it, #2,193 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,909 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,624 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,841 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,483 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,735 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,227 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,887 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,095 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,374 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,174 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 27 | #5,360 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,074 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,656 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,682 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,810 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,189 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,697 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,870 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,869 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,500 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,559 | 31.6 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,388 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,193 | 36.2 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,223 | 34.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,919 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,216 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,164 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,678 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,623 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,497 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,656 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,567 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,667 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,475 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,712 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,929 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,308 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,922 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,659 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,196 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shianna, and how old are they?
An estimated 920 Americans named Shianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 744 people named Shianna (744 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,472 babies since 1880, Shianna is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 44 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Shianna
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 Shianna and names like it
- Compare Shianna and ShyanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShianna peaked in 1997.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shianna since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Shianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.