girls:
5.2k births since 1950
#2347 (59th percentile)
boys:
317 births since 1963
#4269 (7th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1950
#3683 (52nd percentile)
The name Shannan is the #3,683 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,479 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 52.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,347 (58.9% percentile) for all time with 5,162 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,269 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 317 births since 1963.
Shannan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 1963 for boys). Birth data for Shannan is available in 61 out of the 63 years between 1950 and 2012 (61 years for girls and 26 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 Shannan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shannan reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 33.2% percentile (ranked #517) with 154 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 161 births per million (ranked 33.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
For boys, Shannan reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #634) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shannan".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Shannon. View all variations of Shannon.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Shannan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 15 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Shannon" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Shannon..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shannan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shannan is pronounced as SHA-nuhn, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Shannan? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shannan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shannan, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AE1 N AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker