Shania
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shania is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Recent coinage, an elaborated form of Shana, recently popularized by the singer Shania Twain.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.3K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 15K
- AUAustralia1 in 18K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 254 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Recent coinage, an elaborated form of Shana, recently popularized by the singer Shania Twain. It is pronounced with the stress on the i, as in the traditional pronunciation of Maria.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,940 | 22K rec. | 1 in 26K | 13K | Shania | 254 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,519 | 3.4K rec. | — | 102 | Shania | 105 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,001 | 383 rec. | — | 873 | Shania | 32 |
| FR France | — | 3,302 | 989 rec. | — | 540 | Shania | 106 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,784 | 589 rec. | — | 2 | Shania | 84 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,408 | 232 rec. | — | — | Shania | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,594 | 698 rec. | — | 4 | Shania | 86 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,010 | 294 rec. | — | 5 | Shania | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 787 | 517 rec. | — | 2 | Shania | 19 |
| GY Guyana | #41 | 596 | 856 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 596 | Shania | 8 |
| PE Peru | — | 498 | 219 rec. | — | — | Shania | 19 |
| MX Mexico | — | 394 | 186 rec. | — | — | Shania | 44 |
Roughly 13K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 26K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English39K56%
- Spanish5.3K8%
- Hindi4K6%
- French3.6K5%
- Indonesian3.4K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 39,036 | 56% |
| Spanish | 5,291 | 8% |
| Hindi | 3,950 | 6% |
| French | 3,635 | 5% |
| Indonesian | 3,422 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Shania is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 2 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 4 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 11 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 12 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 13 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 13 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 19 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 17 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 16 |
| 1976 | 19 |
| 1977 | 18 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 23 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 19 |
| 1982 | 20 |
| 1983 | 24 |
| 1984 | 36 |
| 1985 | 36 |
| 1986 | 29 |
| 1987 | 36 |
| 1988 | 31 |
| 1989 | 33 |
| 1990 | 36 |
| 1991 | 46 |
| 1992 | 45 |
| 1993 | 67 |
| 1994 | 62 |
| 1995 | 54 |
| 1996 | 43 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 73 years between 1927–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shania Collinsb. 1996USUS athletics sprinter
- Shania van Nulandb. 1997NLDutch association football player
- Shania Junianathab. 1998IDIndonesian singer
- Shania Haylesb. 1999GBEnglish association football player (born 1999)
- Shania Kathapurmallb. 1999ITItalian singer
- Shania Mijlandb. 1999NLDutch association football player
- Shania Graciab. 1999IDIndonesian singer
- Shania Siegenthalerb. 2001CHSwiss association football player
- Shania Leungb. 2002MUbadminton player
- Shania LazoPEPeruvian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 70 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,088 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 873 | #2,277 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 596 | #142 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 540 | #3,515 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #6,720 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1999 | 102 | #80 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 96 | #16,330 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #7,507 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 90 | #9,160 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 90 | #1,838 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 69 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 566 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shania?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Shania (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shania have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Shania in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shania.
- Where is Shania most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shania is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Shania compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Shania is the 41st most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Shania a male or female name?
- Shania is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Shania mean?
- Recorded meaning: Recent coinage, an elaborated form of Shana, recently popularized by the singer Shania Twain.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shania” — the 41st most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.