Meaning not yet researched.
Shana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #174 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #174 in 1984; #5,213 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,213 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #174.
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Shana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #174 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 1,563 (1984).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Shana, making it the 5,213th most common girls’ name of the year, down 932 places from #4,281 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 34 girls named Shana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #174, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,563. For comparison, it was #4,059 in 2015 and #3,030 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shana in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 29,748 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 10,282 babies named Shana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 262 US girls were named Shana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shawna (45,640 babies since 1880), Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880), Shauna (28,121 babies since 1880) and Sheena (22,447 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shannah, Shaena and Shanai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shannah (1,378), Shaena (541), Shanai (392), Shanah (295), Shayana (277), Shanara (241), Shaynna (234), Zhana (159), Shahana (150), Shainna (137), Zhanae (124), Shanaye (122), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,213 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,281 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,233 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,904 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,546 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,365 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,538 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,631 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 2000 | 192 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1999 | 212 | #978 | — | — |
| 1998 | 254 | #840 | — | — |
| 1997 | 277 | #763 | — | — |
| 1996 | 342 | #653 | — | — |
| 1995 | 367 | #610 | — | — |
| 1994 | 395 | #580 | — | — |
| 1993 | 521 | #486 | — | — |
| 1992 | 596 | #423 | — | — |
| 1991 | 698 | #370 | — | — |
| 1990 | 762 | #350 | 7 | #7,057 |
| 1989 | 769 | #327 | 7 | #6,824 |
| 1988 | 945 | #267 | 7 | #6,314 |
| 1987 | 1,018 | #252 | 8 | #5,382 |
| 1986 | 1,094 | #236 | 5 | #7,650 |
| 1985 | 1,423 | #189 | 11 | #4,008 |
| 1984 | 1,563 | #174 | 6 | #6,205 |
| 1983 | 718 | #323 | 5 | #7,168 |
| 1982 | 695 | #342 | — | — |
| 1981 | 819 | #295 | — | — |
| 1980 | 913 | #273 | 5 | #7,127 |
| 1979 | 1,198 | #218 | 6 | #5,938 |
| 1978 | 1,345 | #192 | 8 | #4,495 |
| 1977 | 1,501 | #183 | 11 | #3,572 |
| 1976 | 1,322 | #189 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,019 | #239 | 9 | #3,898 |
| 1974 | 675 | #328 | 5 | #5,881 |
| 1973 | 682 | #327 | 7 | #4,429 |
| 1972 | 764 | #317 | 6 | #4,898 |
| 1971 | 732 | #345 | — | — |
| 1970 | 992 | #293 | — | — |
| 1969 | 877 | #305 | — | — |
| 1968 | 439 | #460 | — | — |
| 1967 | 379 | #489 | — | — |
| 1966 | 372 | #485 | — | — |
| 1965 | 265 | #587 | — | — |
| 1964 | 174 | #785 | — | — |
| 1963 | 132 | #919 | — | — |
| 1962 | 99 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,886 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,142 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,832 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).