Shawana

girls:

1.9k births since 1956

#3915 (31st percentile)

overall:

1.9k births since 1956

#5879 (24th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shawana".

1956 2000 19562000

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,881
Peak Births
125
Peak Year
1977
First Recorded
1956
Peak Percentile
15.6%
Current Percentile
0.7%
Peak Rank
#648
Current Rank
#891
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shawana

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shawana. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.5% confident that Shawana is pronounced as shuh-WAH-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is shah-WAH-nuh, at 18.4% confidence.

shah-WAH-nuh (3 syllables)
18.4% confidence
SH AA0 W AA1 N AH0
shuh-WUH-nuh (3 syllables)
13.2% confidence
SH AH0 W AH1 N AH0
shuh-WA-nuh (3 syllables)
7.9% confidence
SH AH0 W AE1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shawana. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shawana, please vote using the thumbs up button.

shuhh-WAH-nuh (3 syllables)
2 names 257 births
SH AH0 HH W AA1 N AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

SHWAH-nuh (2 syllables)
4 names 118 births
SH W AA1 N AH0

About Pronunciation Data

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 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.

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.