Shanae

Where Shanae comes from

Anglicization of Irish Sinéad q.v. based on its modern Irish pronunciation. Doublet of Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Juanita, and Sinead.
— Wiktionary's entry for Shanae
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #6,042 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #568
    409 babies named Shanae — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,409.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

No widely known Shanae turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.