girls:
2.9k births since 1956
#3240 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1956
#5052 (35th percentile)
The name Shawnna is the #5,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,861 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 34.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,240 (43.3% percentile) for all time with 2,861 births since 1956.
Shawnna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (first recorded for girls in 1956). Birth data for Shawnna is available in 58 out of the 62 years between 1956 and 2017. 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, Shawnna reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 18.1% percentile (ranked #629) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 88 births per million (ranked 18.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shawnna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shawnna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Shawnna is pronounced as SHAW-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAH-nuh, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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