Shawna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Recently coined feminine form of pShawn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃɔnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shawna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 8.4K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K
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
- 473 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Recently coined feminine form of pShawn. SHAY Shay ° Variant spelling of Shea as a girl’s name. Variant: Shaye.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shawna 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 | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Shawna | 9 |
| US United States | #773 | 39,653 | 1 in 8.4K | 40K | Shawna | 473 |
| CA Canada | #584 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 1 | Shawna | 193 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Shawna | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Shawna | 96 |
| NZ New Zealand | #614 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Shawna | 16 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Shawna | 19 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Shawna | 3 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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)
Shawna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old English; from the grove of trees.
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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)
- Shawna McCarthyb. 1954USAmerican magazine editor
- Shawna Robinsonb. 1964USAmerican stock car racing driver
- Shawna Trpcicb. 1966USAmerican costume designer
- Krysti Lynnb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1971-1995)
- Shawna Rochelle Kimbrellb. 1976USAmerican fighter pilot
- Eva Nottyb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Shawna Waldronb. 1982USAmerican actress
- Shawna Elizabethb. 1986USAmerican professional wrestler, manager and valet
- Shawna Leneeb. 1987USAmerican pornographic actress
- Shawna Yang Ryanb. 2000USTaiwanese American novelist
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Shawna come from?
- Recently coined feminine form of pShawn. SHAY Shay ° Variant spelling of Shea as a girl’s name. Variant: Shaye. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Shawna a male or female name?
- Shawna 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 Shawna?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Joan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Shawna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɔnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Shawna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Recently coined feminine form of pShawn.
- In which country does Shawna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 thousand people named Shawna in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shawna.
- How common is the name Shawna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,653 people named Shawna in 2020, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Shawna compared with other names?
- In Canada, Shawna is the 584th most common given name of 188,338 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shawna?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shawnaThe 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, “Shawna” — the 584th most common given name in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.