first name
SHANNA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 24,889 people named Shanna, 76.5% reported their origin as White, 11.8% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shanna peaked in 1978, when 1,855 babies got the name.
At least 28,372 babies have been given the name since 1931. 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.
Shanna by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #490. The largest share of babies named Shanna, 46.1%, 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 Shanna is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shanna has been most common in Utah (3.8×), Idaho (1.8×), and Oklahoma (1.8×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.29×).
25,489 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 Shanna, most common first.
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