Shawna
Shawna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 139th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19772,082 births
- Best rank
- #139in 1977
- Since 1941
- 45,522people given the name
The story in the numbers
45,522 girls have been named Shawna in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 2,082 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 2,082 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 36%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shawna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 112 | |
| 1950s | 986 | |
| 1960s | 5,566 | |
| 1970s | 16,181 | |
| 1980s | 12,972 | |
| 1990s | 7,106 | |
| 2000s | 2,009 | |
| 2010s | 483 | |
| 2020s | 107 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Shawna was the 139th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Shawna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shawnnapeak 1977
- Shannonpeak 1970
- Keripeak 1975
- Laticiapeak 1971
- Shandrapeak 1976
- Tarapeak 1972
- Latinapeak 1973
- Mellisapeak 1979
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.