How rare is the name Shauna?

25,557 people in the United States have the first name Shauna, about 1 in 11,818. It ranks #1,382 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHAUNA

#1,382

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
25,557
About
1 in 11,818
This common or more
74.2%
Who bears it

Of the 25,557 people named Shauna, 79.3% reported their origin as White, 10.6% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shauna peaked in 1979, when 1,416 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19382025
Peak year
1979
Births that year
1,416
In 2025*
11 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 28,121 babies have been given the name since 1938. 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.

Shauna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #557. The largest share of babies named Shauna, 40.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#9,74313
1940s#2,558332
1950s#1,2081,875
1960s#9153,566
1970s#5578,070
1980s#5648,499
1990s#1,0974,025
2000s#2,6711,365
2010s#8,015299
2020s#13,80377
Silent Generation 1928–450.3%
Baby boom 1946–6412.3%
Generation X 1965–8040.8%
Millennials 1981–9637.7%
Generation Z 1997–128%
2013 and later0.9%

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 Shauna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shauna has been most common in Utah (9.9×), Idaho (4.2×), and Montana (2.7×), and least common in South Carolina (0.38×).

25,043 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 Shauna

#1,380 Alivia · 25,622#1,381 Sheldon · 25,589#1,383 Sienna · 25,552#1,384 Bret · 25,548

Spelled almost the same

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

#773 Shaun · 64,418#1,055 Shawna · 39,653#1,359 Shana · 26,205#1,398 Shanna · 24,889#1,964 Shayna · 14,154#2,445 Shaina · 10,144#6,162 Shaunna · 2,629#15,379 Shaune · 749

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