Shawna

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)

Popularity Trends

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

1941 2023 19412023

Key Statistics

Total Births
45,502
Peak Births
2,082
Peak Year
1977
First Recorded
1941
Peak Percentile
82.3%
Current Percentile
1.8%
Peak Rank
#137
Current Rank
#930
Female statistics
Total Births
105
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1974
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#641
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shawna

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shawna. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.9% confident that Shawna is pronounced as SHAW-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SHOW-nuh, at 9.1% confidence.

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90.9%
SHOW-nuh (2 syllables)
9.1% confidence
SH AW1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHA-nuh (2 syllables)
9 names 64.1k births
SH AE1 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 AO1 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.