girls:
2.4k births since 1943
#3527 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1943
#5415 (30th percentile)
The name Shona is the #5,415 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,408 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 30.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,527 (38.3% percentile) for all time with 2,408 births since 1943.
Shona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (first recorded for girls in 1943). Birth data for Shona is available in 66 out of the 79 years between 1943 and 2021. 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, Shona reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 20.1% percentile (ranked #618) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 87 births per million (ranked 20.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shona".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shona is pronounced as SHOH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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