# Shawnee (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shawnee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “shawnee”, “southerners” |
| Pronunciation | /ʃɑˈni/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,029 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 120 / 3,909 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 25, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Ultimately from Shawnee saawanwa (“Shawnee”) or saawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Likely a re-analysis of Shawnese as the plural Shawnees.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 22 | 6,282 |
| 2010 | 13 | 9,152 |
| 2011 | 17 | 7,375 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,752 |
| 2013 | 15 | 8,095 |
| 2014 | 12 | 9,455 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,703 |
| 2016 | 11 | 10,014 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,840 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15,393 |
| 2019 | 16 | 7,301 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,986 |
| 2022 | 9 | 11,114 |
| 2023 | 5 | 17,260 |
| 2024 | 7 | 13,274 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | 4,992 |
| 1974 | 10 | 3,529 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,252 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,359 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4,515 |
| 1978 | 7 | 4,973 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,943 |
| 1980 | 5 | 7,138 |
| 1986 | 7 | 5,836 |
| 1992 | 5 | 9,597 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,545 |
| 1995 | 8 | 6,881 |
| 1996 | 5 | 10,308 |
| 1999 | 6 | 9,712 |
| 2000 | 6 | 10,151 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | 2,096 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2000 | 7 | 2,167 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |

## People named Shawnee

- Shawnee Smith, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.