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Shanon

Shanon means "Irish river name" and comes from Irish, giving it real etymological depth as a gender-neutral name. It belongs mostly to the 1970s at this point. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 8 of the last twelve decades.

EtymologyVariant of Shannon
IrishIrish river name
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
23
1950s
210
1960s
998
1970s
2,918
1980s
1,560
1990s
613
2000s
195
2010s
22
Peaked in the 1970s · 6,539 total U.S. births since 1900