Shona
5
Babies in 2024
-71%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 200
+25%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Shona
Shona peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (200 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 5 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Shona reached its peak in 1997, when 200 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #211 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 5 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,526 girls have been officially registered with the name Shona in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 74 girls were registered with the name, starting from 17 in 2014 and ending at 5 in 2024.