Shonia
Shonia was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 144 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shonia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shonia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,031, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1970, the peak
Shonia peaked in 1970, when 16 girls were given it, #3,845 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #12,031 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,866 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,800 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,067 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,835 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,994 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,993 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,867 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,469 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,845 | 9.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 12 | #4,385 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,727 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,383 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,456 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,372 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,921 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,486 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,230 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shonia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shonia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shonia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shonia, and how old are they?
An estimated 132 Americans named Shonia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 52 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 180 people named Shonia (179 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,157 babies since 1880, Shonia is the fifth most given (2.3% 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 Shonia
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 Shonia and names like it
- Compare Shonia and ShonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShonia peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Shonia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shonia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.