Girls' name · peaked in 1977

Shawna name popularity since 1925

45,640 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Shawna. Half of them were born in 1979 or earlier, so the typical Shawna is about 47 years old in 2026. Shawna peaked in 1977 as the #139 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 45,640; Named Shawna, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1977; #139 for girls that year
Typical age: About 47; Median birth year 1979
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #10,789 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 45,531 girls · 109 boys
Most popular in: Montana; 3.68× its national share

Peak year is the year Shawna 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.

Shawna births per year, 1925–2025

1977 was the biggest year for Shawna both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1959 and 1964, Shawna became 3.4× more common, from 1 in 10,900 baby girls to 1 in 3,220.
Steepest fall: Between 2001 and 2006, its share of baby girls fell by 57%, from 1 in 5,750 to 1 in 13,400.

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

Decade by decade

Babies named Shawna 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	0	0	Under 5
1940s	112	0	Under 5
1950s	986	0	#1,018
1960s	5,566	0	#396
1970s	16,180	67	#161
1980s	12,973	37	#215
1990s	7,106	5	#425
2000s	2,009	0	#1,271
2010s	483	0	#3,643
2020–25	116	0	#10,789

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

46.9% of babies named Shawna from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Shawna is most popular

The index compares Shawna'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 Shawna.

State	Index	Babies
Montana	3.68×	468
Idaho	3.50×	607
Oregon	2.72×	1,110
Washington	2.34×	1,704
New Mexico	2.26×	544

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Shawna 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
Shawna (this page)	45,531	1977
Shawnna	2,861	1977

Names with a similar story

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

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Shawna (1977).

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