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Shannon
Pronounced /ˈʃænən/
Rank in 2024
#2,597
Born in 2024
51
Peak year
1972 · #94
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:107 in 2024 (#1,862)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 51 boys were named Shannon, about 1 in every 33,634.
- It peaked in 1972 with 3,013 babies, ranked #94.
- It first shows up in the records in 1881.
- 52,336 boys 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
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 428 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 614 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,272 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 33,319 babies, 1.22 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,762 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,098 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 827 babies, 0.04 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.