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  • Members: 40
  • Category: Names
  • Founded: Oct 28, 2005
  • Language: English
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This group is for anyone who shares our unique name! Shanna may be pronounced either as rhyming with Banana or with Fauna.

Meanings of the name Shanna:

~ ~*~Angel of Beauty~*~

~ Nickname for Shoshana (Hebrew) "lily, rose"; short form of Shannon or anglicization of Shaina.

~ Generally considered to be a modern form of the name Séan, an Irish form of John. Shaina also means 'beautiful' in Yiddish.

~ Celtic/Gaelic Ancient God (Shannan)

~ Gaelic: little wise one (Shana, Shani, Shanna, Shannah, Shannan, Shauna, Shawna, Shannon)

~ Shanna Quay: From the Gaelic "seanachi" - which means a 'storyteller', or someone who passes down the culture, history and myths of Ireland by word of mouth - as in songs and poems. It is pronounced shanna-key. In Ireland, the word 'quay' is also pronounced like 'key'.
(Many thanks to Steve Power of Shanna Quay - an Irish Music website - for this lovely description!)

~ Old English: Lily

~ Slow Water. God is gracious (Irish/Hebrew). A feminine form of Shane.


As a surname:

~ Irish: 1. Anglicized form of Gaelic MacSeáin 'son of Seá n', a form of JOHN. 2. Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanaigh 'descendant of Seanach', a byname meaning 'Old', 'Wise'. Variants (of 1): Shane, McShane. (of 2) O'Shanna, O'Shann(e)y, O'Sheny; Shannagh, Shann(e)y, Sheeny Diminutives (of2): [several given]

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