Shennon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Shennon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Shennon is also written Шеннон in Cyrillic.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Kas Shannon
- GYGuyana1 in 5.1Kas Shannon
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 Shennon 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
300,975 named Shannon, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shennon in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shannon in US United States.
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
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)Shennon 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 | 300,975as Shannon | 1 in 1.1K | 262K | Shannon | 67 |
| GY Guyana | 146as Shannon | 1 in 5.1K | 146 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 130as Shannon | 1 in 78K | 130 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 109as Shannon | 1 in 54K | 98 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 71as Shannon | 1 in 72K | 71 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 1.7K | — | 6 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shennon a male or female name?
- Shennon 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Shennon?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 301 thousand people named Shannon, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Guyana, Sweden, Denmark and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shennon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shennon is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.5 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shennon?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Shennon, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shennon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shennonThe 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, “Shennon” — ranked 171st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.