How rare is the name Shannan?

5,118 people in the United States have the first name Shannan, about 1 in 59,014. It ranks #3,846 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHANNAN

#3,846

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,118
About
1 in 59,014
This common or more
83.1%
Who bears it

Of the 5,118 people named Shannan, 79.9% reported their origin as White, 10.8% as Black and 4.2% as two or more races. 94.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shannan peaked in 1970, when 305 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502012
Peak year
1970
Births that year
305
In 2012
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,479 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shannan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,183. The largest share of babies named Shannan, 59.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#6,48182
1960s#1,914898
1970s#1,1832,352
1980s#1,9081,261
1990s#3,453686
2000s#10,821182
2010s#34,84518
Baby boom 1946–644.8%
Generation X 1965–8059.6%
Millennials 1981–9629.1%
Generation Z 1997–126.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shannan is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shannan has been most common in California (2×), Ohio (1.7×), and Florida (1.5×), and least common in North Carolina (0.45×).

2,923 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.

Either side of Shannan

#3,844 Ria · 5,123#3,845 Nhan · 5,120#3,847 Makai · 5,117#3,848 Adilene · 5,116

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shannan, most common first.

#171 Shannon · 300,975#3,245 Shanon · 6,601#7,323 Shannen · 2,095#13,493 Shanan · 893#19,274 Shannyn · 551#24,570 Shanin · 391#27,808 Shanen · 327#28,022 Shaneen · 323

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