Shawnee
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Shawnee is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 94K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 98K
- CACanada≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
3,530 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shawnee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,530 | 1 in 94K | 3.4K | Shawnee | 296 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Shawnee | 64 |
| CA Canada | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 5 | Shawnee | 83 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 1 | — | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | 56 | 1 in 309K | 50 | — | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 10 | — | 20 |
3,530 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; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Shawnee is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, N. American people; US pi. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, college, IL
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Finnish, Shawnee (Native American people from Ohio)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shoni Kleinb. 1904HUnot in their usual namevictim of the Holocaust
- Shawnee KishCAMohawk singer-songwriter based in what is known as Canada
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,014 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 228 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 176 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 168 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 155 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 152 | #5,014 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 134 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 124 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 122 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 119 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 89 | — |
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
- What does the name Shawnee mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Shawnee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Shawnee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shawnee.
- Where is Shawnee most common?
- Shawnee is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 94 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shawnee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,530 people named Shawnee in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shawneeThe 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, “Shawnee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.