Shoua — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shoua

The Social Security Administration has registered 282 babies named Shoua between 1981 and 1997, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shoua currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Shoua is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shoua performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 163 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Shoua shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 111 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Shoua in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shoua 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 282 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.