girls:
29.6k births since 1937
#827 (86th percentile)
boys:
113 births since 1972
#4473 (2nd percentile)
overall:
29.7k births since 1937
#1480 (81st percentile)
The name Shana is the #1,480 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,686 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 80.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #827 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 29,573 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #4,473 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1972.
Shana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Shana is available in 85 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (85 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shana reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 78.8% percentile (ranked #168) with 866 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 912 births per million (ranked 77.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Shana ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shana reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #668) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shana".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.3% confident that Shana is pronounced as SHAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAY-nuh, at 33.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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