Shianna — girls' name
929 babies named Shianna in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Shianna was born in this single decade.
63 babies were named Shianna in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shianna
The Social Security Administration has registered 929 babies named Shianna between 1978 and 2019, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shianna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 63 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shianna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 385 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shianna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Indiana and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shianna in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shianna 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 929 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.
Shianna at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shianna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1978
- Peak year (1997)
- 63
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
929 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 63 births in a single year.
Shianna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 385 births that decade — 41% of Shianna's all-time total
Shianna decade highlights
- Peak decade 385 births
- Runner-up 380 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Shianna's strongest decade
385 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Shianna by state
Where Shianna concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 32 | 3.4% |
| #2 | Indiana | | 26 | 2.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 10 | 1.1% |
| #4 | Michigan | | 10 | 1.1% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #6 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.5% |
32 of 929 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 3.4% of nationwide
- Indiana 2.8% of nationwide
- Florida 1.1% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.1% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.