Shanon

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#498highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2011

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1005
1997	#2152
1998	#1480
1999	#928
2000	#1313
2001	#2466
2002	#4137
2003	#2436
2004	#1836
2006	#3116
2007	#5201
2009	#5556
2011	#5785

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 England and Wales in 13 of the 16 years from 1996 to 2011.

In 2001: #606 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2466 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1005 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2001
Highest recorded position: #498 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–2001).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011.
England and Wales · Girls

Shanon appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 118 births with the name.

Shanon across 2 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.

Shanon'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1005 (1996)	#928 (1999)	#5785 (2011)	13 of 16	118 (1996–2011)	23 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#498 (1998)	#498 (1998)	#606 (2001)	2 of 4	6 (1998–2001)	3 (1998)

Shanon by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Shanon in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	62	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	53	8 of 10	7
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #498 in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Shanon'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
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#928	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1005	20	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified

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

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

Where Shanon is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Shanon, between 1996 and 2011, in 13 of those 16 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2011	13	#928 in 1999
Republic of Ireland	1998–2001	2	#498 in 1998

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Shanon was ranked #498 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Abagail#498
Ailis#498
Alexandria#498
Alysha#498

What is known about Shanon

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1996–2011.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #498 in Republic of Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Shanon

Shanon at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shanon across 2 official records

Shanon by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Shanon is officially recorded

Names published alongside Shanon

What is known about Shanon

Shanon at a glance

Shanon across 2 official records

Shanon by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Shanon