girls:
3.9k births since 1943
#2767 (52nd percentile)
boys:
120 births since 1969
#4466 (3rd percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1943
#4329 (44th percentile)
The name Shawnee is the #4,329 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,021 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 44.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,767 (51.6% percentile) for all time with 3,901 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,466 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 120 births since 1969.
Shawnee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Shawnee is available in 76 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (76 years for girls and 18 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 Shawnee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shawnee reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 25.8% percentile (ranked #638) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 114 births per million (ranked 25.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shawnee ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shawnee 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 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shawnee".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shawnee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Shawnee is pronounced as SHAW-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shaw-NEE, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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