How Many People Are Named Shana?
people named Shana are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 12,055 people in the US has this name
Based on 29,748 babies named Shana in Social Security records from 1937 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐ Rare
Peak Year
1,569 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHANNA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shana in English. Counting Shana and these spellings together, about 56,584 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Shana (99.6%) were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Shana alive today is about 43 years old, and 87% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 50 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Shana first appears in the records in 1937 and was given most often in 1984, to 1,569 babies. In 2025, 25 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1937 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Shana has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #174, in 1984. In 2025 it ranked #5,212.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,212 |
| Best rank | #174 (1984) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #257 in the 1970s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Shana alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shana were born in California than in any other state: about 2,527 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shana was given 1.7 times as often in South Carolina, 1.6 times in Arkansas and 1.6 times in Oklahoma.
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