Shannon

At the 2020 census, 44,030 Americans bore the surname Shannon — 767th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,789.

By the numbers

People: 44,030
Rank: 767th
How common: 1 in 6,789
Per 100,000: 14.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Shannon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.3%
Black, not Hispanic 19.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shannon

Claude Shannon (1916–2001)American mathematician and information theorist
Michael Shannon (born 1974)American actor
Molly Shannon (born 1964)American actress and comedian
Del Shannon (1934–1990)American musician
Peggy Shannon (1907–1941)American actress
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. (born 1958)American diplomat
Sharon Shannon (born 1968)Irish musician
Shannon (born 1998)South Korean-British singer

People named Shannon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Shannon

Also a first name

Shannon has been given to 348,161 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.