Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Shenan**

#31,721 most common girls' name of all time · #51,142 across all names · 48% male / 52% female · used 1965–1979 · genuinely unisex

Rank among girls
#31,721
Rank overall
#51,142 of 105,966
First appeared
1965
Years on the list
9 of 146
All-time
52
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1966
Best rank
#7,161 1971
Girls Boys peak 8/yr

Shenan first appears in 1965. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1979 5 — 5 #10,882
1976 5 — 5 #10,013
1974 — 5 5 —
1973 5 — 5 #9,118
1971 7 — 7 #7,161
1970 5 — 5 #8,820
1969 — 5 5 —
1966 — 8 8 —
1965 — 7 7 —