Shawnee
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
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
By decade
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.
- Kirstinpeak 1990
- Kirstenpeak 1991
- Ivonnepeak 1992
- Dandreapeak 1990
- Sharmainepeak 1992
- Reginepeak 1994
- Rebeckapeak 1993
- Rebeccahpeak 1991
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.