How rare is the name Shoshana?

4,998 people in the United States have the first name Shoshana, about 1 in 60,430. It ranks #3,913 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHOSHANA

#3,913

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,998
About
1 in 60,430
This common or more
83.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,998 people named Shoshana, 88.7% reported their origin as White, 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shoshana peaked in 2022, when 152 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19482025
Peak year
2022
Births that year
152
In 2025*
123 ▼19%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,682 babies have been given the name since 1948. 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.

Shoshana by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,344. The largest share of babies named Shoshana, 29.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#11,6537
1950s#6,53681
1960s#4,600184
1970s#2,768557
1980s#2,344885
1990s#2,6351,025
2000s#3,2741,024
2010s#3,2761,130
2020s#2,949789
Baby boom 1946–642.9%
Generation X 1965–8013%
Millennials 1981–9626.3%
Generation Z 1997–1229.6%
2013 and later28.1%

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 Shoshana is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shoshana has been most common in New Jersey (10×), New York (6×), and Maryland (3×), and least common in Ohio (0.16×).

3,932 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 Shoshana

#3,911 Smith · 4,999#3,911 Stefany · 4,999#3,914 Jakayla · 4,996#3,914 Lai · 4,996

Spelled almost the same

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

#15,392 Shoshanna · 748#30,674 Shoshannah · 283#32,550 Shushan · 258#33,663 Shoshanah · 245#49,660 Shashana · 124

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