Meaning not yet researched.
Shawna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #139 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #139 in 1977; #10,789 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shawna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,789 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #139.
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Shawna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #139 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 2,082 (1977).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Shawna, making it the 10,789th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,662 places from #6,127 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 20 girls named Shawna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #139, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,082. For comparison, it was #3,643 in 2015 and #1,547 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shawna in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 45,640 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 16,247 babies named Shawna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 241 US girls were named Shawna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shauna (28,121 babies since 1880), Seana (1,905 babies since 1880) and Shawnna (2,861 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shawnae, Shawnay and Shawnah 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: Shawnae (352), Shawnay (64), Shawnah (39).
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 Shawna 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 | 9 | #10,789 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,127 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,718 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,586 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,142 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 2003 | 250 | #942 | — | — |
| 2002 | 250 | #897 | — | — |
| 2001 | 313 | #766 | — | — |
| 2000 | 341 | #692 | — | — |
| 1999 | 386 | #620 | — | — |
| 1998 | 445 | #556 | — | — |
| 1997 | 463 | #517 | — | — |
| 1996 | 536 | #468 | — | — |
| 1995 | 612 | #425 | — | — |
| 1994 | 794 | #338 | — | — |
| 1993 | 848 | #315 | — | — |
| 1992 | 909 | #306 | — | — |
| 1991 | 988 | #283 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,125 | #249 | 5 | #9,297 |
| 1989 | 1,007 | #265 | — | — |
| 1988 | 1,102 | #239 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,125 | #237 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,196 | #222 | 5 | #7,659 |
| 1985 | 1,200 | #215 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,327 | #201 | 7 | #5,487 |
| 1983 | 1,455 | #187 | 5 | #7,171 |
| 1982 | 1,770 | #162 | 8 | #4,931 |
| 1981 | 1,359 | #198 | 7 | #5,404 |
| 1980 | 1,432 | #188 | 5 | #7,136 |
| 1979 | 1,548 | #177 | 8 | #4,788 |
| 1978 | 1,702 | #161 | 8 | #4,498 |
| 1977 | 2,082 | #139 | 8 | #4,514 |
| 1976 | 1,508 | #169 | 7 | #4,849 |
| 1975 | 1,689 | #161 | 5 | #6,202 |
| 1974 | 1,662 | #162 | 10 | #3,528 |
| 1973 | 1,403 | #188 | 8 | #4,000 |
| 1972 | 1,666 | #174 | 5 | #5,629 |
| 1971 | 1,420 | #214 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,500 | #210 | 8 | #3,786 |
| 1969 | 1,189 | #249 | — | — |
| 1968 | 740 | #319 | — | — |
| 1967 | 645 | #353 | — | — |
| 1966 | 609 | #368 | — | — |
| 1965 | 552 | #396 | — | — |
| 1964 | 589 | #401 | — | — |
| 1963 | 458 | #454 | — | — |
| 1962 | 295 | #572 | — | — |
| 1961 | 280 | #604 | — | — |
| 1960 | 209 | #706 | — | — |
| 1959 | 185 | #749 | — | — |
| 1958 | 153 | #817 | — | — |
| 1957 | 167 | #779 | — | — |
| 1956 | 131 | #874 | — | — |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,349 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,986 | — | — |
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).