Recorded 1944–2019 · United States
Shanon was most popular in 1970, when 374 American babies were given the name — ranking #932 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,549 people named Shanon.
Shanon first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1944, which makes it about 81 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 69 of the 82 years since. It was last recorded in 2019.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,549 American births named Shanon between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 6,126 are estimated to be alive today.
Shanon was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Shanon is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Shanon is a unisex name — 73.6% of the 6,549 Americans given it were girls and 26.4% were boys. It changed hands: since 2002 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 45% girls and 55% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 6,126 Americans named Shanon are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 49 years old, and half are between 42 and 55.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org