as a Last Name
- 42,500
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Shannon
Meaning & Origins
Irish: 1. reduced form of Shanahan. 2. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’. 3. in County Clare, a reduced Anglicized form of Mac Giolla tSeanáin‘son of the servant of St. Seanán’. In the Irish midlands Leonard and Nugent have been adopted as equivalents of this name.
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Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 42,500
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Shannon per capita
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