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Shanna

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Shanna is a girls' name of Welsh origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Shanna mean?

Welsh: spelling of Shana

A female given name from Welsh.

Meaning borrowed from Shana. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Shanna a girl's or a boy's name?

Shanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shanna in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 31 girls.

Half of all the girls named Shanna in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2005. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 31 in 19962021
Shanna in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20211#7,491
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20121#7,881
20111#7,717
20102#7,447
200912#2,153
200811#2,286
200711#2,198
200614#1,764
200513#1,807
200411#1,949
200319#1,263
200215#1,399
200115#1,398
200016#1,290
199923#1,005
199821#1,080
199721#1,053
199631#798

How popular is Shanna in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Shanna, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 1978, with 1,845 girls. It first appears in the records in 1931.

Half of all the girls named Shanna in the US since 1880 were born between 1975 and 1986, the years shaded on the chart below.

1931Busiest: 1,845 in 19782025
Shanna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202410#9,551
20237#12,192
20229#10,377
202114#7,625
202011#8,948
201917#6,694
201811#9,146
201720#6,040
201614#7,985
201517#6,974
201423#5,623
201331#4,541
201222#5,892
201133#4,352
201043#3,623
200958#2,965
200866#2,754
2007114#1,848
2006138#1,567
2005129#1,574
2004135#1,487
2003122#1,578
2002132#1,443
2001166#1,217
2000152#1,274
1999187#1,069
1998195#1,017
1997238#858
1996288#730
1995281#727
1994350#628
1993403#582
1992466#511
1991589#431
1990589#430
1989553#441
1988670#364
1987744#328
1986855#289
19851,058#243
19841,217#213
19831,044#237
19821,213#216
19811,255#210
19801,520#181
19791,793#157
19781,845#149
19771,608#167
1976690#325
1975601#357
1974660#334
1973642#340
1972611#360
1971603#381
1970759#344
1969606#379
1968346#518
1967304#539
1966246#603
1965193#708
1964207#721
1963163#811
1962125#949
1961125#963
1960103#1,057
1959100#1,065
195877#1,210
195769#1,261
195654#1,436
195552#1,382
195458#1,299
195341#1,530
195223#2,125
195126#1,920
195033#1,625
194932#1,665
194831#1,668
194732#1,696
194625#1,807
194518#1,992
194421#1,866
194322#1,833
194222#1,803
194114#2,271
194013#2,296
193913#2,300
193814#2,225
19377#3,433
19369#2,855
19359#2,924
19346#3,800
19335#4,216
19326#3,899
19316#3,846

Names like Shanna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Jessica Erin Ffion Cara Tara Holly Lara Francesca Molly Keira Robyn Amber

Names related to Shanna

Shannon Sana Shanaya Shaan Sianna Shania Sihana Shauna Shayna Shaina Shyanne

More Welsh names

Dylan Owen Winnie Maddox Morgan Idris Reese Bowen Griffin Rhys Gavin Reece Nia Seren Gwendolyn Winifred

Every Welsh name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shanna, updated 20 October 2026.