Shawna
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 2,082 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 45,531since 1941
Shawna over time
Rank among girls' names. Shawna has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,805 | 62 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,555 | 70 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,227 | 88 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,539 | 142 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,265 | 177 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,180 | 190 | — | |
| 2003 | #941 | 250 | — | |
| 2002 | #896 | 250 | — | |
| 2001 | #763 | 313 | — | |
| 2000 | #691 | 341 | — | |
| 1999 | #620 | 386 | — | |
| 1998 | #556 | 445 | — | |
| 1997 | #516 | 463 | — | |
| 1996 | #468 | 536 | — | |
| 1995 | #425 | 612 | — | |
| 1994 | #338 | 794 | — | |
| 1993 | #314 | 848 | — | |
| 1992 | #306 | 909 | — | |
| 1991 | #281 | 988 | — | |
| 1990 | #249 | 1,125 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #265 | 1,007 | — | |
| 1988 | #239 | 1,102 | — | |
| 1987 | #237 | 1,125 | — | |
| 1986 | #222 | 1,196 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #214 | 1,200 | — | |
| 1984 | #201 | 1,327 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #187 | 1,455 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #162 | 1,770 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #198 | 1,359 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #187 | 1,432 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #177 | 1,548 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #161 | 1,702 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #139 | 2,082 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #167 | 1,508 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #160 | 1,689 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #162 | 1,662 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #188 | 1,403 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #174 | 1,666 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #214 | 1,420 | — | |
| 1970 | #210 | 1,500 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #249 | 1,189 | — | |
| 1968 | #319 | 740 | — | |
| 1967 | #353 | 645 | — | |
| 1966 | #368 | 609 | — | |
| 1965 | #396 | 552 | — | |
| 1964 | #401 | 589 | — | |
| 1963 | #451 | 458 | — | |
| 1962 | #572 | 295 | — | |
| 1961 | #602 | 280 | — | |
| 1960 | #705 | 209 | — | |
| 1959 | #747 | 185 | — | |
| 1958 | #813 | 153 | — | |
| 1957 | #777 | 167 | — | |
| 1956 | #872 | 131 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,010 | 98 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,123 | 77 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,439 | 46 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,469 | 43 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,332 | 49 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,524 | 37 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,603 | 34 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,621 | 33 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shawna! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shawna
- 4,145 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #10,107)
- 5,654 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #10,107)
- 6,512 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 1956 (#1,010 → #872)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 2004 (#941 → #1,180)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1977 at #139 (2,082 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1956–2003
- Highest: 1 in 736 girls born in 1977 were named Shawna (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.5% of all girls named Shawna (16,180) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 112 | #1,603 (1949) | #3,250 |
| 1950s | 986 | #747 (1959) | #1,111 |
| 1960s | 5,566 | #249 (1969) | #442 |
| 1970s | 16,180 | #139 (1977) | #175 |
| 1980s | 12,973 | #162 (1982) | #211 |
| 1990s | 7,106 | #249 (1990) | #407 |
| 2000s | 2,009 | #691 (2000) | #1,292 |
| 2010s | 483 | #2,136 (2010) | #3,614 |
| 2020s | 116 | #4,453 (2020) | #6,551 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shawna in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 1,434 of them was named Shawna, which outranked 98.3% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 368,303 of them was named Shawna, which outranked 14.2% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,109 names at #6,721; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.