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Shakeema vs Shannon

American parents have registered 348,161 Shannons since 1880, against 629 Shakeemas. Shannon is still ahead, with 116 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shakeema against Shannon, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shakeema Shannon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Shannon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Shakeema had 47 and Shannon had 6,447.

Side by side

  Shakeema Shannon
Total US births 629348,161
Most in one year 4716,118
Babies in 2025 under 5116
Estimated living today 610326,000
Median age today 3747
Peak year 19931970
Best rank 2,600th girls22nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,387th
First recorded 19741881
Girls / boys 629 / 0295,782 / 52,379

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shannons alive today are over 47; half the Shakeemas are over 37. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shakeema and Shannon.