Shauna
Shauna reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 189, and has been recorded 28,121 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 26,000 Shaunas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shauna boys named Shauna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,121
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 189th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1938
- Girls / boys
- 28,071 / 50
How old the living Shaunas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,121 babies given the name since 1938, about 26,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
From variant of Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Johannes, variant of Ioannes, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Shaunas
- Shauna Grant (1963–1984)American pornographic actress and nude model
- Shauna Macdonald (born 1981)Scottish actress
- Shauna Rohbock (born 1977)American bobsledder
- Shauna Sand (born 1971)American actress and model
- Shauna Coxsey (born 1993)English rock climber
- Shauna Robertson (born 1974)Canadian film producer
People named Shauna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shauna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shauna is most concentrated in Utah (9.9×), Idaho (4.2×), Montana (2.7×), Oregon (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular girls’ names the year Shauna peaked:
Shauna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Shauna | 6,795 | 6th |
| England and Wales girls | Shauna | 3,070 | 115th |
| France girls | Shauna | 495 | 577th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Shauna | 391 | 47th |
| Scotland girls | Shauna | 281 | 182nd |
| Belgium girls | Shauna | 87 | 573rd |
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.
Shauna: rank by region
In 2010, Shauna was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Shauna | 523 | 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
Shauna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.