Shawnee
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #9,112
Given to girls 97.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 228 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,909since 1943
Shawnee over time
Rank among girls' names. Shawnee has never cracked the top 800 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | — | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,174 | 73 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,857 | 85 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,405 | 122 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,434 | 116 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,288 | 134 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,381 | 119 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #1,346 | 124 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,044 | 176 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #865 | 228 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #1,144 | 155 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,057 | 168 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,943 | 66 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,032 | 58 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,838 | 63 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,890 | 59 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #2,253 | 45 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,516 | 36 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,115 | 48 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,231 | 45 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #1,653 | 64 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #1,736 | 59 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #1,252 | 89 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #1,498 | 68 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #1,448 | 69 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #1,361 | 73 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #1,248 | 83 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #1,350 | 79 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,474 | 68 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #1,667 | 52 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,632 | 47 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,708 | 46 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,787 | 42 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,031 | 33 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,533 | 54 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,925 | 35 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,985 | 31 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,842 | 35 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,662 | 41 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,519 | 19 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shawnee! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shawnee is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#802 · 1 in 19,297
- California#1,366 · 1 in 31,284
Best ever in a state: #170 in Montana, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | #802 | 6 | 1 in 19,297 |
| California | #1,366 | 5 | 1 in 31,284 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shawnee
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 279 spots in 1992 (#1,144 → #865)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1993 (#865 → #1,044)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1992 at #865 (228 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1992
- Highest: 1 in 8,087 girls born in 1992 were named Shawnee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 36.5% of all girls named Shawnee (1,427) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 18 | #3,892 (1949) | #4,609 |
| 1950s | 243 | #1,662 (1956) | #2,283 |
| 1960s | 451 | #1,533 (1961) | #1,726 |
| 1970s | 712 | #1,248 (1972) | #1,482 |
| 1980s | 504 | #1,838 (1987) | #2,149 |
| 1990s | 1,427 | #865 (1992) | #1,282 |
| 2000s | 408 | #2,174 (2000) | #4,038 |
| 2010s | 117 | #7,025 (2019) | #9,645 |
| 2020s | 29 | #10,383 (2022) | #12,207 |
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.
Shawnee in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
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2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 48,968 of them was named Shawnee, which outranked 75.9% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,637Vanita42
- #1,637Verla42
- #1,637Zenobia42
- #1,662Shawnee41
- #1,662Amie41
- #1,662Bertie41
- #1,662Dorthea41
- #1,681Abbe40
- #1,681Alanna40
- #1,681Annita40
Tied with 18 names at #1,662; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.