Shanan is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Recently, the name Shanan has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Shanan. That means that a girl named Shanan is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shanan.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shanan. Girls named Shanan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,494 Shanan ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Shanan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Shanan only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shanan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Shanan is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 63 Americans in total bear this name. And these 63 women are located in only five states: California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Shanan and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Shanan in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 392,445 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shanan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Shanan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shanan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shanan, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Nut
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shanan
Shanan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
N
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
N
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shanan sounds like this:
