Girls' name · peaked in 1979

Shauna name popularity since 1925

28,121 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Shauna. Half of them were born in 1980 or earlier, so the typical Shauna is about 46 years old in 2026. Shauna peaked in 1979 as the #189 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 28,121; Named Shauna, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1979; #189 for girls that year
Typical age: About 46; Median birth year 1980
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #9,374 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 28,071 girls · 50 boys
Most popular in: Utah; 9.55× its national share

Peak year is the year Shauna made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Shauna births per year, 1925–2025

1979 was the biggest year for Shauna both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1965 and 1970, Shauna became 2.5× more common, from 1 in 5,600 baby girls to 1 in 2,250.
Steepest fall: Between 1990 and 1995, its share of baby girls fell by 53%, from 1 in 2,600 to 1 in 5,480.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Shauna's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Shauna.

Decade by decade

Babies named Shauna in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	13	0	Under 5
1940s	332	0	#1,868
1950s	1,875	0	#540
1960s	3,560	6	#536
1970s	8,038	32	#347
1980s	8,487	12	#294
1990s	4,025	0	#666
2000s	1,365	0	#1,665
2010s	299	0	#4,702
2020–25	77	0	#9,374

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

40.8% of babies named Shauna from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Shauna is most popular

The index compares Shauna's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Shauna.

State	Index	Babies
Utah	9.55×	2,059
Idaho	4.20×	423
Oregon	2.15×	510
Colorado	2.02×	631
Washington	1.83×	774

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Shauna and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Shauna (this page)	28,071	1979
Shaunna	2,936	1978

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Shauna's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Shauna.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Shauna (1979).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data