Shannen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃænən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shannen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 81K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K
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)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shannen 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 | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Shannen | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,095 | 1 in 159K | 1.9K | Shannen | 282 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Shannen | 52 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 4 | Shannen | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 4 | Shannen | 131 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 509 | 1 in 34K | 509 | Shannen | 27 |
| IE Ireland | #709 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Shannen | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Shannen | 24 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shannen Rossmillerb. 1969USAmerican judge
- Shannen W. Coffinb. 1969USAmerican lawyer
- Shannen Dohertyb. 1971USAmerican actress (1971–2024)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,323 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 509 | #1,986 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 449 | #3,427 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 216 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 179 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 177 | #7,323 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 163 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 111 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 100 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 53 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shannen?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃænən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shannen a male or female name?
- Shannen 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.
- What are other forms of the name Shannen?
- In the etymology graph, Shannon, Shana and Shanna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Shannen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Shannen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shannen.
- How common is the name Shannen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,095 people named Shannen in 2020, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Shannen compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Shannen is the 709th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shannen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shannenThe 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, “Shannen” — the 709th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.