Shawnna

Where Shawnna comes from

The dictionaries list Shawnna as a given name — a female given name, variant of Shauna — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #5,325 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Shawnna Bolick born
    American politician
  3. 1977
    Peak, #959
    144 babies named Shawnna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,784.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Shauna.
Namesakes
  • Shawnna Bolick · American politician, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.