Shavonne
Feminine · “God has been gracious”
Shavonne is the longest of a dozen English attempts at one Irish name, and the final e is the part doing the least. It makes the name look French, which it is not, and it adds nothing at all to how it is said.
How old is the name Shavonne?
Shavonne first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Shavonne alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 2,900 people named Shavonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shavonne most popular?
Shavonne peaked in 1979, reaching #651 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From Siobhan to Shavonne
The story of Shavonne
English readers meeting the Irish spelling cannot get to the sound, so they write what they hear, and what they reach for is whatever pattern in English already ends that way. The commonest is the French -onne of Yvonne and Simonne, and it attached itself to this name immediately: Shavonne, Shevonne, Chevonne, Shivonne. The result looks like a French name and sounds like an Irish one, and neither language would recognize the spelling. There is nothing wrong with it — it is a working solution to a real problem — but it is worth knowing that the elegant final e is borrowed from an entirely different tradition.
Meaning
God has been gracious
The Irish name behind it is the feminine of the Irish John, and carries that meaning through Norman French. None of the English respellings touches it.
How the name formed
- Siobhan
- Shavonne
Related forms: Siobhan · Jeanne
Pronouncing Shavonne
shuh-VON
Two syllables with the weight at the back. The final e is silent, so this spelling and Shavon are said identically.
Nicknames for Shavonne
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 1980220 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #651reached in 1979
- Change vs 2014
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shavonne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Siobhan in Irish — same name
- Jeanne in French — related form
Shavonnes among us
people named Shavonne are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shavonne sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It removes every difficulty the Irish spelling creates.
- The name behind it is old, well documented and in current use in Ireland.
- Every sound in it is easy for an English speaker.
- There are at least a dozen live spellings of this name and all will be tried on you.
- Irish speakers will read it as a respelling and usually say so.
- The French-looking ending suggests an origin the name does not have.
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- How many Shavonnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Shavonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Shavonne is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Shavonne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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