Meaning not yet researched.
Shoshana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,230 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,230 in 1984; #1,682 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shoshana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,682 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,230.
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Shoshana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,230 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 152 (2022).
In 2025, 123 US girls were named Shoshana, making it the 1,682nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 110 places from #1,792 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 113 girls named Shoshana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,230, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 152, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,848 in 2015 and #5,999 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shoshana in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 7 babies. In all, 5,682 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,130 babies named Shoshana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,277 US girls were named Shoshana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shoshana ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #219 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Shoshanah and Shoshona are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shoshanah (193), Shoshona (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 Shoshana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 38 | #219 | #239 |
| New York | 34 | #503 | #733 |
| Maryland | 5 | #977 | #768 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,670 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,438 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2015 | 112 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2003 | 109 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1997 | 141 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1984 | 106 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,736 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,570 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,329 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,888 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,999 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,596 | — | — |
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).