Shannen

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Shannen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Shannen: Recorded every year since 1992, it reached #77 in 1995, and it was last ranked in 2008.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#77highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2008

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#514
1997	#658
1998	#1259
1999	#1317
2000	#897
2001	#1305
2002	#1530
2003	#1843
2004	#2278
2005	#2682
2006	#2320
2007	#3218
2008	#3860

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in every year from 1992 to 2006.

In 2006: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2320 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1992–2008 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1992
First recorded at #238 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1992 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1992–2006
Highest recorded position: #77 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1995 (recorded 1992–2006).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2008
Most recently recorded at #3860 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008.
England and Wales · Girls

Shannen appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 1992, and has registered 324 births with the name.

Shannen across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Shannen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#238 (1992)	#77 (1995)	#764 (2006)	15 of 15	324 (1992–2006)	72 (1994)
England and Wales · Girls	#514 (1996)	#514 (1996)	#3860 (2008)	13 of 13	213 (1996–2008)	51 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#241 (1997)	#241 (1997)	#284 (2003)	4 of 7	18 (1997–2003)	6 (1997)

Shannen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1992 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #77 in Republic of Ireland in 1995.

Shannen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1317	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#658	37	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#514	51	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#282	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#241	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	7	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	10	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#163	29	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#150	33	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#77	69	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#80	72	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	51	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#238	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1992 and 2008, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #77, first reached in 1995.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1994.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 5 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Shanna · #284, 17y
Shannan · #232, 18y
Shannon · #2, 53y
Shanon · #498, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rihanna · #77, 21y
Gayle · #80, 22y
Nixon · #81, 19y
Grahame · #71, 12y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cory · #77, 33y
Kayden · #77, 30y
Shakira · #77, 29y
Tiana · #77, 31y

Shannen was ranked #77 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1995. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Shannen and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Shannen without appearing here.

Shannen moved ahead of

Bernadette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #677 and #511 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #523 and #689.
Janice Compare
In 1992 they stood at #238 and #197 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1993 that had become #110 and #254.
Tracy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #677 and #576 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #523 and #587.

Moved ahead of Shannen

Pauline Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3218 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3860 and #1718.
Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3218 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3860 and #2150.
Tracey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1843 and #2191 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2278 and #1072.
Dylan Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2320 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3218 and #2085.

Moved the opposite way to Shannen

Abigail Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 while Abigail went from #417 to #44.
Aimee Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 while Aimee went from #121 to #51.
Alex Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 while Alex went from #523 to #82.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 while Alexandra went from #159 to #79.

Moved the same way as Shannen

Angela Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 and Angela from #141 to #303.
Barbara Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 and Barbara from #229 to #764.
Carmel Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 and Carmel from #138 to #764.
Deborah Compare
Between 1992 and 2006 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Shannen went from #238 to #764 and Deborah from #111 to #272.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1992 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #77 in Republic of Ireland in 1995. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Shannen

Shannen at a glance

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Shannen across 3 official records

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Shannen across 3 official records

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Shannen moved ahead of

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