Shonna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shonna

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,089 babies named Shonna between 1942 and 2010, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shonna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 194 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shonna performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,391 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shonna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 317 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shonna in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shonna 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 3,089 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.