Shànnon

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shànnon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.

  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 740(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 790
  • IEIreland≈1 in 810

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shànnon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

300,975 people, 2020

#398 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
600 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 741 (inferred from the name graph)

New Zealand, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ShànnonLatin(measured from records)
섀넌Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shannon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.

Cited for this meaning 6

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Shànnon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Shànnon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#160300,9751 in 1.1K262KShannon600
GB United Kingdom#257≈62,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K4Shannon291
CA Canada#148≈52,000 est.≈1 in 7931Shannon298
AU Australia#183≈33,000 est.≈1 in 835148Shannon278
ZA South Africa—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Shannon116
NZ New Zealand#157≈7,100 est.≈1 in 74112Shannon146
IE Ireland#128≈6,700 est.≈1 in 81015Shannon121

300,975 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Shànnon is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Shannon, Шеннон, Шэннон, Шаннон, Shennon

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Shànnon under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shànnon mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Irish Sionainn. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 4 other sources.
Is Shànnon a male or female name?
Shànnon is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Shànnon have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 301 thousand people named Shànnon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shannon.
How common is the name Shànnon?
In the United States, the national register counted 300,975 people named Shànnon in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Shànnon compared with other names?
In the United States, Shànnon is the 160th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shànnon” — the 160th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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