girls:
1.9k births since 1956
#3915 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1956
#5879 (24th percentile)
The name Shawana is the #5,879 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,881 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 24.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,915 (31.5% percentile) for all time with 1,881 births since 1956.
Shawana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (first recorded for girls in 1956). Birth data for Shawana is available in 41 out of the 45 years between 1956 and 2000. 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.
For girls, Shawana reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 15.6% percentile (ranked #648) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 76 births per million (ranked 15.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shawana".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shawana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.5% confident that Shawana is pronounced as shuh-WAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shah-WAH-nuh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 W AA1 N AH0) 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.
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