girls:
45.5k births since 1941
#624 (89th percentile)
boys:
105 births since 1970
#4481 (2nd percentile)
overall:
45.6k births since 1941
#1145 (85th percentile)
The name Shawna is the #1,145 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,607 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 85.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #624 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 45,502 births since 1941. For boys, it ranks #4,481 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 1970.
Shawna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Shawna is available in 82 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (82 years for girls and 15 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 Shawna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shawna reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 82.3% percentile (ranked #137) with 1,266 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 1,266 births per million (ranked 82.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1978, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shawna ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shawna reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #648) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% 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 "Shawna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shawna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Shawna is pronounced as SHAW-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHOW-nuh, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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