Name: Shannon
Gender: Female
Usage: Shannon, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Shannon are in general originating from France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Shannon across the world, see Sean.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Shannon is: God is gracious, Little wise owl.
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Numerology of the first name Shannon: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Shannon is ranked on the 177th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 3235500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.045% of the population. The name Shannon has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Shannon for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Shannon is 24 June.
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History and Origin
Shannon ("wise river") is an Irish unisex name, Anglicised from Sionainn. Alternative spellings include Shannen, Shanon, Shannan, Seanan, and Siannon. The variant Shanna is an Anglicisation of Sionna ("possessor of wisdom").
Sionainn is an Irish portmanteau of sion (wise) and abhainn (river). This is the Irish name for the River Shannon. Because the suffix ain indicates a diminutive in Irish, the name is sometimes mistranslated as "little wise one".
English (chiefly U.S.): from the name of a river in Ireland. It is not clear why it has become so popular as a given name, but it combines a similar phonetic shape to Sharon, an Irish reference as in Erin, and a river name as in Clodagh. It is not used in Ireland itself.
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