Name meaning & stats
Shana
Shana (Welsh origin). 29,735 US babies since 1940, peak 1984.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Welsh
In US birth records
Peak year: 1984
29,735 US babies were named Shana between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Shana (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 31% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1984)