Shonna
Recorded 1942–2010 · United States
Shonna was most popular in 1977, when 194 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,364 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,089 people named Shonna.
Shonna over time
How old is the name Shonna?
Shonna first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1942, which makes it about 83 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 61 of the 84 years since. It was last recorded in 2010.
How many people are named Shonna?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,089 American births named Shonna 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 2,899 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shonna in 2025?
Shonna 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.
Is Shonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shonna is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,089 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were 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.
How old is someone named Shonna?
Roughly 2,899 Americans named Shonna are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 45 and 56. That is a narrow band: Shonna arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
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.
Where Shonna is most concentrated
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