How Many People Are Named Shawnee?
people named Shawnee are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 89,355 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,029 babies named Shawnee in Social Security records from 1943 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
233 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "southern people" in the Algonquin language. The Shawnee were an Algonquin tribe who originally lived in the Ohio valley.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Shawnee, 97.1% were girls and 2.9% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shawnee alive today is about 39 years old, and 62% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 29 and 51 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shawnee first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1992, to 233 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Shawnee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #870, in 1992.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #870 (1992) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,243 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shawnee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shawnee were born in California than in any other state: about 437 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shawnee was given 5.3 times as often in Utah, 2.9 times in Pennsylvania and 2.2 times in California.
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