Gender-neutral · #2387 in 2025

Shannon

Shannon: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2387
Born 2025
75
Peak year
1976

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Shannon per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1976. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Shannon has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1976 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 68% of children named Shannon were recorded as girls and 32% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

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Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.