How popular is the name Shawna?

Shawna ranks 441st among girls' names in US records, with 73,737 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 456.

Is Shawna a unisex name?

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

1977, when 3,065 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

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

Girl name#441 of girl names

Pronounced SH AO1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Shawna is a girls' name, and first appears in 1938. It has been given to 73,737 children — the 441st most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 456 births across the past decade, against a peak of 3,065 in a single year. That peak was in 1977.

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

1977Girls: 3,065Boys: 13

These spellings sound identical to Shawna 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 Shawna?: Shawna ranks 441st among girls' names in US records, with 73,737 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 456.
Is Shawna a unisex name?: No. Shawna is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Shawna most popular?: 1977, when 3,065 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Shawna spelled?: Shauna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.