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Shawnee

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Shawnee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 872nd, in 1992.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of girls
Peak year
1992228 births
Best rank
#872in 1992
Since 1943
4,028people given the name
Babies named Shawnee, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

3,908 girls have been named Shawnee in the United States since 1943, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 228 births.

The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 228 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 120 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Shawnee
1940s18
1950s243
1960s451
1970s712
1980s504
1990s1,427
2000s408
2010s116
2020s29

In 1992, its biggest year

Shawnee was the 872nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Shawnee

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.