Shoshannah — girls' name
223 babies named Shoshannah in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Shoshannah was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Shoshannah in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shoshannah
The Social Security Administration has registered 223 babies named Shoshannah between 1967 and 2017, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shoshannah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shoshannah performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shoshannah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shoshannah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shoshannah 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 223 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.
Shoshannah at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shoshannah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1967
- Peak year (1980)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
223 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 14 births in a single year.
Shoshannah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 82 births that decade — 37% of Shoshannah's all-time total
Shoshannah decade highlights
- Peak decade 82 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Shoshannah's strongest decade
82 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Shoshannah by state
Where Shoshannah concentrates geographically — total births since 1967
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.2% |
5 of 223 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.2% 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, 1967–2017 (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.