girls:
5 births since 1969
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
242 births since 1965
#4344 (5th percentile)
overall:
247 births since 1965
#7492 (3rd percentile)
The name Shonn is the #7,492 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 247 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,344 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 242 births since 1965. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1969.
Shonn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Shonn is available in 23 out of the 50 years between 1965 and 2014 (23 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Shonn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shonn reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #645) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Shonn reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #763) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shonn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shonn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Shonn is pronounced as shahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shawn, at 13.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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