Shannon
Shannon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 107 births. Its best rank was 17th, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1070.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 197013,547 births
- Best rank
- #17in 1976
- Since 1912
- 348,046people given the name
The story in the numbers
295,710 girls have been named Shannon in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 13,547 births — 0.77% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 107 births in 2024, against 13,547 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 38%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
Shannon is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are boys (52,336), most of them born around 1972.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shannon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | |
| 1920s | 112 | |
| 1930s | 372 | |
| 1940s | 1,557 | |
| 1950s | 6,100 | |
| 1960s | 33,852 | |
| 1970s | 113,798 | |
| 1980s | 78,421 | |
| 1990s | 45,909 | |
| 2000s | 12,458 | |
| 2010s | 2,585 | |
| 2020s | 531 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Shannon was the 22nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Shannon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shawnapeak 1977
- Shawnnapeak 1977
- Jennifferpeak 1972
- Laticiapeak 1971
- Latinapeak 1973
- Bobbijopeak 1975
- Shandrapeak 1976
- Keripeak 1975
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.