This page shows the Shona (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Shona was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Shona's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Shona for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Shona appears in 40 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 2,443 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1975, when the table records 167 babies given the name, at rank 55 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Shona for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
20253780
20124665
20113810
20103802
20097453
20084650
20078401
200610340
200513264
200417208
200312271
200214248
200116229
200019209
199932137
199842110
199736126
199640122
19955597
199445120
19935799
19926693
19917195
199069100
19898089
198867106
19877299
19868779
19857896
19849281
198310273
198210969
198112866
198011172
197914855
197813358
197712661
197614957
197516755
197414861

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