Shannen
Shannen reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 892, and has been recorded 2,071 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 2,000 Shannens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shannen boys named Shannen
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,071
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 892nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 1,921 / 150
How old the living Shannens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,071 babies given the name since 1961, about 2,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Shannens
- Shannen Doherty (1971–2024)American actress
People named Shannen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shannen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shannen is most concentrated in California (3.2×), New York (2.3×), New Jersey (2.0×), Florida (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Shannen peaked:
Shannen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Shannen | 324 | 80th |
| England and Wales girls | Shannen | 213 | 514th |
| France girls | Shannen | 210 | 922nd |
| Scotland girls | Shannen | 188 | 111th |
| Belgium girls | Shannen | 51 | 647th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Shannen | 18 | 241st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Shannen: rank by region
In 2002, Shannen was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Shannen | 699 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Shannen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.