Shannon Forename
1,893rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 529,850 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Samoa
Shannon Forename Definition:
A Usage name, meaning: From the river Shannon, principal stream in Ireland and celebrated in song.
Shannon Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 89% | 445,908 | 1:813 | 167 |
| Canada | 90% | 45,297 | 1:731 | 153 |
| Australia | - | 12,947 | 1:1,055 | 218 |
| South Africa | 69% | 5,865 | 1:9,298 | 1,621 |
| England | 93% | 4,117 | 1:13,506 | 978 |
| New Zealand | - | 2,583 | 1:1,756 | 366 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,788 | 1:11,633 | 1,701 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,233 | 1:13,708 | 1,489 |
| Thailand | 81% | 945 | 1:74,144 | 6,958 |
| India | 63% | 593 | 1:2,048,698 | 106,045 |
| Samoa | - | 593 | 1:329 | 87 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 499 | 1:2,728 | 530 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 408 | 1:75,521 | 8,273 |
| Philippines | 73% | 398 | 1:266,355 | 10,786 |
| Bangladesh | - | 367 | 1:434,500 | 16,631 |
| Scotland | 96% | 352 | 1:15,200 | 853 |
| China | - | 350 | 1:3,903,017 | 51,300 |
| Iraq | 100% | 333 | 1:105,159 | 2,507 |
| Kenya | - | 330 | 1:140,325 | 6,513 |
| Malaysia | 59% | 311 | 1:97,910 | 6,905 |
| Ireland | 94% | 278 | 1:16,703 | 925 |
| Namibia | - | 214 | 1:11,234 | 1,308 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 205 | 1:8,991 | 731 |
| Jamaica | - | 199 | 1:14,489 | 1,403 |
| Singapore | 67% | 195 | 1:32,241 | 5,886 |
| Indonesia | - | 192 | 1:1,343,561 | 76,919 |
| Germany | 99% | 162 | 1:596,777 | 5,839 |
| Brazil | 100% | 157 | 1:1,364,561 | 32,501 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 148 | 1:70,482 | 4,180 |
| Bahamas | - | 143 | 1:2,793 | 555 |
| Wales | 83% | 124 | 1:24,954 | 1,241 |
| France | 98% | 106 | 1:627,079 | 6,087 |
| Zimbabwe | 68% | 100 | 1:154,238 | 9,958 |
| Belize | 100% | 92 | 1:3,851 | 835 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 91 | 1:177,016 | 2,867 |
| Egypt | - | 87 | 1:1,056,333 | 18,582 |
| Guyana | 100% | 86 | 1:8,875 | 1,390 |
| Suriname | 100% | 82 | 1:6,742 | 1,371 |
| Oman | 100% | 79 | 1:52,008 | 2,563 |
| Bermuda | - | 77 | 1:842 | 177 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Chile | 89% | 74 | 1:237,935 | 4,023 |
| Japan | - | 72 | 1:1,777,584 | 18,845 |
| Mexico | 91% | 72 | 1:1,724,228 | 10,921 |
| Hong Kong | - | 57 | 1:136,013 | 3,010 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Sweden | 87% | 56 | 1:176,034 | 6,380 |
| Belgium | 100% | 54 | 1:212,779 | 5,056 |
| South Korea | - | 53 | 1:104,612 | 5,249 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 51 | 1:1,202 | 274 |
| Uganda | 67% | 47 | 1:871,424 | 16,067 |
| Guam | - | 45 | 1:3,570 | 683 |
| Costa Rica | 82% | 44 | 1:108,362 | 3,345 |
| Denmark | - | 42 | 1:134,512 | 3,493 |
| Papua New Guinea | 73% | 40 | 1:203,808 | 17,339 |
| Ecuador | - | 38 | 1:466,498 | 5,173 |
| Russia | 100% | 35 | 1:4,120,963 | 21,515 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 58% | 35 | 1:3,188 | 601 |
| Spain | 100% | 35 | 1:1,329,428 | 9,779 |
| Aruba | - | 33 | 1:3,145 | 634 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 32 | 1:943,809 | 20,727 |
| Afghanistan | 50% | 30 | 1:1,087,451 | 12,872 |
| Liberia | 75% | 30 | 1:147,069 | 5,712 |
| Panama | 100% | 30 | 1:130,219 | 5,854 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 30 | 1:273,783 | 5,582 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 30 | 1:792,323 | 34,623 |
| Peru | 65% | 27 | 1:1,177,461 | 14,768 |
| Norway | 100% | 26 | 1:197,397 | 4,991 |
| Qatar | 71% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| Grenada | 60% | 25 | 1:4,325 | 740 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 25 | 1:240,733 | 5,653 |
| Italy | 82% | 23 | 1:2,654,873 | 16,754 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 22 | 1:4,988 | 824 |
| Botswana | - | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Honduras | 100% | 19 | 1:464,077 | 7,312 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 18 | 1:5,522 | 1,017 |
| Saint Lucia | 71% | 18 | 1:9,879 | 1,352 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Cambodia | 92% | 16 | 1:1,017,083 | 15,971 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Israel | 82% | 16 | 1:525,182 | 10,080 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 16 | 1:447,000 | 16,807 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 13 | 1:43,388 | 1,811 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 12 | 1:4,556 | 750 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 12 | 1:2,892 | 588 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 11 | 1:17,668,880 | 95,124 |
| Czechia | 100% | 9 | 1:1,184,018 | 3,740 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 9 | 1:625,286 | 7,004 |
| Malawi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,901,368 | 9,999 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Greece | 100% | 8 | 1:1,366,818 | 10,115 |
| Jersey | - | 8 | 1:12,498 | 955 |
| Colombia | 96% | 7 | 1:6,825,561 | 33,843 |
| Isle of Man | - | 6 | 1:14,170 | 269 |
| Vietnam | - | 6 | 1:15,437,186 | 4,625 |
| Austria | 100% | 5 | 1:1,702,840 | 9,344 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Nigeria | - | 5 | 1:35,512,872 | 242,191 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 5 | 1:10,557,664 | 41,958 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Argentina | 67% | 4 | 1:10,693,311 | 19,797 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 4 | 1:18,456,901 | 95,891 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Finland | 71% | 4 | 1:1,370,796 | 11,464 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Georgia | - | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Swaziland | - | 4 | 1:325,044 | 2,285 |
| Ukraine | - | 4 | 1:11,374,977 | 14,813 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Armenia | - | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 3 | 1:6,126,490 | 60,119 |
| Cook Islands | - | 3 | 1:6,051 | 772 |
| Jordan | 89% | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3 | 1:1,183,434 | 5,646 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Serbia | - | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Uruguay | - | 2 | 1:1,713,818 | 10,870 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cameroon | - | 1 | 1:21,610,503 | 119,836 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Shannon (93,661) may also be a surname.
Shannon Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Usage name, meaning: From the river Shannon, principal stream in Ireland and celebrated in song.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Shannon Forename Popularity
Shannon Demographics
Shannon Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Sample size: 5 (1901)
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Phonetically Similar Names
Shannon Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shannon in the Russian language | ||
| Шаннон | sannon | - |
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