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Shannah (female)

Variants:Shannagh (F)
Derivative of:Susanna (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

English of obscure origin. 

It may be a shortened form of Susanna/Susannah [q.v.], from Hebrew "lily".

Alternatively the rarer spelling Shannagh suggests a Gaelic connection, possibly with the Irish surname meaning "descendant of Seanach".