What is the name "Shannon" in Spanish?

Answer 1

It may depend on what you mean by a "Spanish version"

a) same ORIGIN?
It won't quite work. There are "international" names -- examples are Hebrew and Greek names, mainly drawn from the Bible, that were BORROWED into other languages and developed their own forms, and Latin names continued in new forms in the languages derived from Latin. But "Shannon" is a Gaelic name which has NOT been borrowed and adapted into Spanish.

b) same MEANING?
Again, a bit of a problem. "Shannon" means "wise river".** Spanish simply doesn't construct names of that sort! The best you could do is choose one part of it, and find a Spanish equivalent of that. Easiest would be "wise (one)", since many languages have names of that type.
**http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=shanna


The best I know (and having SOME similarity in sound) is SOFÍA, the Spanish version of Greek "Sophia" ("wisdom").
http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=sophia


c) something that just SOUNDS similar?
You might be best off just to stick with "Shannon", or perhaps the abbreviated form "Shanna". Not quite Spanish (though the ending is more so). Note that "Shanna" is ALSO used as an abbreviation of another name, Hebrew "Shoshannah", which has various forms -- Susan, Susannah in English, SUSANA in Spanish, etc. (This name means "lily")

Answer 2

Origin Of The Name Shannon

Answer 3

Shannon In Spanish

Answer 4

My name is Shannon. I'm married to a Puerto Rican. I've dated Mexicans. No one has ever told me there is a Spanish version. It is Irish and there it is a boy's name.

Shannon means something about little wise one.

Answer 5

Im not sure it translates... I know two hispanic girls whose names are shannon (one of them is shanon with one "n"), so yea, its problably ina category on its own

Answer 6

El~shannon~O .......sorry ;)