How popular is the name Shoshana?

Shoshana ranks 1,828th among girls' names in US records, with 6,371 births since 1948. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,392.

Is Shoshana a unisex name?

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

2022, when 165 children were given the name. It has been in use for 77 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

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

Girl name#1,828 of girl names

Pronounced SH OW1 SH AA1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Shoshana is a girls' name, and first appears in 1948. It has been given to 6,371 children — the 1,828th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2022, when 165 children were given it.

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

2022165

These spellings sound identical to Shoshana 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 Shoshana?: Shoshana ranks 1,828th among girls' names in US records, with 6,371 births since 1948. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,392.
Is Shoshana a unisex name?: No. Shoshana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Shoshana most popular?: 2022, when 165 children were given the name. It has been in use for 77 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Shoshana spelled?: Shoshanna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.