Feminine dossier · first seen 1937

Shana

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Shana
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 97.8% from peak

Peak era

1984

Peak rank proxy

1,562

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1937Peak 19842024

Peak year

1984

Decline from peak

97.8%

2024

All-time

29,608

Shana once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1984, when 1,562 girls were named Shana.

In 2024, only 34 girls were given the name.

Down 97.8% from its peak.

All told, about 29,608 Americans have been named Shana and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1937.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.8% from peak

19841,562 girls named Shana

202434 girls named Shana

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