Meaning not yet researched.
Shanna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #149 in 1978; #12,982 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,982 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #149.
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Shanna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #149 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 1,845 (1978).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Shanna, making it the 12,982nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,822 places from #10,160 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 girls named Shanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #149, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,845. For comparison, it was #7,224 in 2015 and #1,650 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanna in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 6 babies. In all, 28,372 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 10,166 babies named Shanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US girls were named Shanna; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hanna (42,137 babies since 1880), Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shauna (28,121 babies since 1880) and Shayna (16,272 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shoshanna, Shayanna and Shoshannah 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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shoshanna (823), Shayanna (294), Shoshannah (223), Shayonna (216), Shaianna (45), Sannah (10), Shahanna (5).
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 Shanna 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 | 7 | #12,982 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,160 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,262 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,110 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,971 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,449 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,721 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,256 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,327 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,224 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,082 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2000 | 152 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1997 | 238 | #860 | — | — |
| 1996 | 288 | #733 | — | — |
| 1995 | 281 | #729 | — | — |
| 1994 | 350 | #629 | — | — |
| 1993 | 403 | #583 | — | — |
| 1992 | 466 | #512 | — | — |
| 1991 | 589 | #431 | — | — |
| 1990 | 589 | #430 | — | — |
| 1989 | 553 | #441 | — | — |
| 1988 | 670 | #364 | — | — |
| 1987 | 744 | #328 | — | — |
| 1986 | 855 | #289 | — | — |
| 1985 | 1,058 | #243 | 5 | #7,414 |
| 1984 | 1,217 | #213 | 10 | #4,158 |
| 1983 | 1,044 | #237 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,213 | #216 | 10 | #4,193 |
| 1981 | 1,255 | #210 | 5 | #7,111 |
| 1980 | 1,520 | #181 | 7 | #5,428 |
| 1979 | 1,793 | #157 | 12 | #3,532 |
| 1978 | 1,845 | #149 | 10 | #3,812 |
| 1977 | 1,608 | #168 | 5 | #6,713 |
| 1976 | 690 | #325 | — | — |
| 1975 | 601 | #358 | — | — |
| 1974 | 660 | #334 | 12 | #3,094 |
| 1973 | 642 | #340 | 6 | #4,985 |
| 1972 | 611 | #360 | 6 | #4,900 |
| 1971 | 603 | #382 | — | — |
| 1970 | 759 | #344 | — | — |
| 1969 | 606 | #379 | — | — |
| 1968 | 346 | #520 | — | — |
| 1967 | 304 | #539 | — | — |
| 1966 | 246 | #605 | — | — |
| 1965 | 193 | #710 | — | — |
| 1964 | 207 | #721 | — | — |
| 1963 | 163 | #813 | — | — |
| 1962 | 125 | #951 | — | — |
| 1961 | 125 | #966 | — | — |
| 1960 | 103 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,745 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,229 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,280 | — | — |
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).