Shanon · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Shanon.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1944

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 68 recorded years as a table

Shanon, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1944	4
1947	4
1948	3
1949	4
1950	9
1951	8
1952	5
1953	7
1954	13
1955	9
1956	8
1957	13
1958	16
1959	10
1960	10
1961	12
1962	10
1963	31
1964	25
1965	28
1966	31
1967	48
1968	94
1969	119
1970	163
1971	127
1972	122
1973	113
1974	136
1975	124
1976	161
1977	151
1978	127
1979	113
1980	107
1981	98
1982	78
1983	84
1984	88
1985	72
1986	57
1987	58
1988	45
1989	35
1990	33
1991	30
1992	31
1993	27
1994	24
1995	24
1996	22
1997	21
1998	19
1999	17
2000	9
2001	7
2002	10
2003	11
2004	5
2005	4
2006	6
2007	3
2008	5
2009	5
2010	3
2012	3
2014	3
2019	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Shanon isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2019: 5
Rank in 2019: #15,539
How rare: 1 in 335,673 girls
Since 1944: 4,817

Shanon was last recorded in 2019. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1970, at 163 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Shanon doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.