Meaning not yet researched.
Shauna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #189 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #189 in 1979; #9,374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shauna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,374 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #189.
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Shauna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #189 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 1,403 (1979).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Shauna, making it the 9,374th most common girls’ name of the year, down 501 places from #8,873 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 12 girls named Shauna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #189, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,403. For comparison, it was #4,702 in 2015 and #775 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shauna in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 5 babies. In all, 28,121 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 8,499 babies named Shauna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 162 US girls were named Shauna; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shawna (45,640 babies since 1880), Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880) and Shayna (16,272 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Shauna 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 | 11 | #9,374 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,873 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,584 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,113 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,905 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,600 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,534 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,976 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,033 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,589 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,702 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,770 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,324 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2002 | 172 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1999 | 235 | #903 | — | — |
| 1998 | 243 | #870 | — | — |
| 1997 | 289 | #739 | — | — |
| 1996 | 352 | #638 | — | — |
| 1995 | 321 | #666 | — | — |
| 1994 | 331 | #651 | — | — |
| 1993 | 429 | #556 | — | — |
| 1992 | 538 | #458 | — | — |
| 1991 | 557 | #454 | — | — |
| 1990 | 730 | #364 | — | — |
| 1989 | 567 | #434 | — | — |
| 1988 | 689 | #358 | — | — |
| 1987 | 774 | #313 | 6 | #6,816 |
| 1986 | 750 | #319 | — | — |
| 1985 | 839 | #294 | — | — |
| 1984 | 953 | #257 | — | — |
| 1983 | 863 | #272 | — | — |
| 1982 | 970 | #256 | — | — |
| 1981 | 940 | #266 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,142 | #224 | 6 | #6,134 |
| 1979 | 1,403 | #189 | 13 | #3,326 |
| 1978 | 1,267 | #202 | 7 | #4,972 |
| 1977 | 983 | #253 | 5 | #6,718 |
| 1976 | 539 | #381 | — | — |
| 1975 | 625 | #347 | — | — |
| 1974 | 689 | #323 | 7 | #4,568 |
| 1973 | 514 | #393 | — | — |
| 1972 | 599 | #366 | — | — |
| 1971 | 641 | #369 | — | — |
| 1970 | 778 | #337 | — | — |
| 1969 | 585 | #389 | — | — |
| 1968 | 451 | #453 | 6 | #4,073 |
| 1967 | 414 | #466 | — | — |
| 1966 | 474 | #430 | — | — |
| 1965 | 315 | #536 | — | — |
| 1964 | 336 | #539 | — | — |
| 1963 | 317 | #545 | — | — |
| 1962 | 231 | #676 | — | — |
| 1961 | 234 | #679 | — | — |
| 1960 | 203 | #716 | — | — |
| 1959 | 225 | #667 | — | — |
| 1958 | 157 | #804 | — | — |
| 1957 | 195 | #714 | — | — |
| 1956 | 210 | #663 | — | — |
| 1955 | 290 | #540 | — | — |
| 1954 | 283 | #527 | — | — |
| 1953 | 183 | #664 | — | — |
| 1952 | 119 | #845 | — | — |
| 1951 | 88 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1950 | 125 | #775 | — | — |
| 1949 | 149 | #691 | — | — |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,909 | — | — |
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).