Shonna is a female first name.
Recently, the name Shonna 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 Shonna. That means that a girl named Shonna 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 Shonna.
Is the name Shonna a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1977, when it ranked #745 with 194 newborn girls receiving this special first name. In times of emerging digitalization, it thus experienced its last peak. Since Shonna is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their daughter this unusual name. So, if your name is Shonna, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shonna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Shonna born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Shonna born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
You may not know anyone named Shonna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to women and girls named Shonna. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Shonna living in one state or another. If your name is Shonna and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Kentucky, which has the most people named Shonna relative to the population, you still have to ask 45,366 women and girls their names before you hear Shonna as an answer just once.
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 Shonna 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 Shonna 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 Shonna, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Orange
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shonna
Shonna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
O
N
N
A
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
O
N
N
A
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. Shonna sounds like this:
