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Shannen

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93% girls / 7% boys

Origin of the name

Shannen is a form of Shannon, the name of the longest river in Ireland.

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Short-lived name

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1993 was its best year: 216 births, or 1 baby in 17,448. The decline was steep: births are now 99% below the peak. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published. 51% of all babies named Shannen since 1880 were born in the 1990s.
1,921births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 891rank at its peak, in 1993

Where babies named Shannen are born

1993

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The darker the blue, the more common Shannen is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Shannen is most common in California (2.3 times), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
1960s79%21%
1970s86%14%
1980s95%5%
1990s96%4%
2000s91%9%
2010s85%15%
2020s100%0%