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Nope, it doesn't rhyme with Shannon. The last syllable sounds like no(n). With that nasal not-quite-an-N on the end. There was a little French speaking girl in my daughter's gym class named Manon. The teachers (American English speakers) knew about the nasal final N, and attempted it, but they stressed the last syllable like they were saying filet mignon, which was wrong. Even though they heard her mother calling her something more like MANo(n). They called her maNONG, basically. It annoyed me ... Manon in French is cute, and feminine enough, but I don't think it works too great in the US because of the pronunciation.