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Girl · Irish, from Hebrew
Shawna Say it: SHAW-nuh
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Meaning A 20th-century feminine of Shawn (Irish Seán, from Hebrew 'God is gracious').
Certain scholars agree on this meaning.
An American coinage that peaked in the 1970s and 1980s.
Its wave through time A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States 0 0.5 1 1.5 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 1977 per 1,000 babies of that sex 45,549 babies given this name since 1941 At its height in 1977, about 1 in 737 girls 30 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Shauna, Seana
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.