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Shannon
Pronounced /ˈʃænən/
Rank in 2024
#1,862
Born in 2024
107
Peak year
1970 · #22
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:51 in 2024 (#2,597)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 107 girls were named Shannon, about 1 in every 15,077.
- It peaked in 1970 with 13,547 babies, ranked #22.
- It first shows up in the records in 1912.
- 295,710 girls have been named Shannon since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Shannon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 5.8Gen X1965–80
- 3.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 90 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,072 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 14,986 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Gen X: 149,328 babies, 5.84 per 1,000. Millennials: 104,721 babies, 3.71 per 1,000. Gen Z: 23,536 babies, 0.81 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,977 babies, 0.10 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname or place name (from the river); first used in the USA in early 20th century, and only recently in Ireland.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈʃænən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Shannon, CC BY-SA 4.0.