first name
SHANA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 26,205 people named Shana, 67% reported their origin as White, 20.4% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shana peaked in 1984, when 1,569 babies got the name.
At least 29,748 babies have been given the name since 1937. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Shana by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #476. The largest share of babies named Shana, 45.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Shana is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shana has been most common in Hawaii (1.5×), South Carolina (1.4×), and Oklahoma (1.4×), and least common in New Hampshire (0.36×).
26,976 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shana, most common first.
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