Shánnon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shánnon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 814(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 846
- CACanada≈1 in 857
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #398 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 600 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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 5 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.
Sources 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shánnon 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Shannon | 51 |
| US United States | #160 | 300,975 | 1 in 1.1K | 262K | Shannon | 600 |
| GB United Kingdom | #257 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 4 | Shannon | 291 |
| CA Canada | #148 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 857 | 1 | Shannon | 298 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #513 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Shannon | 9 |
| AU Australia | #183 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | 148 | Shannon | 278 |
| IE Ireland | #128 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 846 | 15 | Shannon | 121 |
| NZ New Zealand | #157 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 814 | 12 | Shannon | 146 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shánnon 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 Shánnon a male or female name?
- Shánnon 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 Shánnon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Shánnon in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shannon.
- How common is the name Shánnon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 300,975 people named Shánnon in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Shánnon compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Shánnon is the 128th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A1nnonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Shánnon” — the 128th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.