How popular is the name Shana?

Shana ranks 494th among girls' names in US records, with 58,086 births since 1931. Over the past decade it accounts for 403.

Is Shana a unisex name?

No. Shana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1984, when 2,779 children were given the name. It has been in use for 94 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Shanna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#494 of girl names

Pronounced SH AE1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Shana is a girls' name, and first appears in 1931. It has been given to 58,086 children — the 494th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 403 births across the past decade, against a peak of 2,779 in a single year. That peak was in 1984.

Shanna is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

1984Girls: 2,779Boys: 16

These spellings sound identical to Shana and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Shana?: Shana ranks 494th among girls' names in US records, with 58,086 births since 1931. Over the past decade it accounts for 403.
Is Shana a unisex name?: No. Shana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Shana most popular?: 1984, when 2,779 children were given the name. It has been in use for 94 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Shana spelled?: Shanna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.