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.

Shonya

#23,398 most common girls' name of all time · #38,054 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1968–1991

Rank among girls
#23,398
Rank overall
#38,054 of 105,966
First appeared
1968
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
117
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1971 #4,299
Best rank
#4,193 1969
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
1980

Shonya first appears in 1968. 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
1991 5 — 5 #13,848
1980 5 — 5 #11,156
1979 8 — 8 #7,707
1977 8 — 8 #7,297
1976 8 — 8 #7,053
1975 8 — 8 #6,928
1974 12 — 12 #4,964
1973 9 — 9 #5,968
1972 10 — 10 #5,415
1971 14 — 14 #4,299
1970 12 — 12 #4,749
1969 13 — 13 #4,193
1968 5 — 5 #8,153