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The SHANNON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 44,902 693 0.017 167
United States (1880 census) 12,064 493 0.024 241
Change since 1880 +32838 -200 -0.007 -74
Other Countries
Australia 2,268 704 0.014 139
United Kingdom 5,476 1144 0.012 119
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SHANNON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SHANNON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SHANNON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SHANNON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 696 1.55
White (Hispanic) 674 1.5
Asian/Pacific 202 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 171 0.38
White (Caucasian) 34,750 77.39
Black/African American 8,410 18.73

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SHANNON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SHANNON in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) From the Shannon, a river of Ireland. The tranquil, gentle river, from sen, gentle, and abhain, a river. Shan-eon, the tranquil river. S before a vowel, in the Gaelic, has the sound of sh. The river Seine, in France, has the same signification. Shanon--the ancient river, from sean, old, and oun or obhain, a river.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


SHANNON. Probably not fi-ora the great Irish river, though I cannot substitute any better origin.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SHANNON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHANNON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SHANNON

The following words are slight variants of SHANNON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.