Shannan
Shannan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 588th, in 1969.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1969284 births
- Best rank
- #588in 1969
- Since 1950
- 5,479people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,162 girls have been named Shannan in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1969, with 284 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 284 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1970s alone account for 42%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 317 boys have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1969, its biggest year
Shannan was the 588th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1969 were Lisa, Michelle, Jennifer, Kimberly and Melissa. See all of 1969.
Names that rose and fell with Shannan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shanonpeak 1970
- Chandrapeak 1975
- Shawndapeak 1975
- Kerripeak 1975
- Yalondapeak 1974
- Staciepeak 1971
- Shannonpeak 1970
- Lashaunpeak 1969
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.