Shanaya
#1,981 for girls in 2025, 97 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 234 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,149since 1976
Shanaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Shanaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,981 | 97 |
| 2024 | #2,099 | 91 |
| 2023 | #1,627 | 128 |
| 2022 | #1,638 | 129 |
| 2021 | #1,760 | 116 |
| 2020 | #1,533 | 138 |
| 2019 | #1,429 | 156 |
| 2018 | #1,262 | 183 |
| 2017 | #1,159 | 213 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 |
| 2015 | #1,382 | 171 |
| 2014 | #1,416 | 161 |
| 2013 | #1,642 | 130 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 |
| 1991 | #2,703 | 44 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanaya! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shanaya is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,140 · 1 in 8,068
- New York#1,818 · 1 in 16,147
Best ever in a state: #324 in New Jersey, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,140 | 6 | 1 in 8,068 |
| New York | #1,818 | 6 | 1 in 16,147 |
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See more about Shanaya
- 118 spots since 2024 (#2,099 → #1,981)
- 448 spots since 2020 (#1,533 → #1,981)
- 599 spots since 2015 (#1,382 → #1,981)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2016 at #1,098 (234 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,573 girls born in 2016 were named Shanaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,570 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.4% of all girls named Shanaya (1,368) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,923 |
| 1980s | 162 | #3,477 (1989) | #5,394 |
| 1990s | 381 | #2,095 (1999) | #3,528 |
| 2000s | 528 | #2,446 (2004) | #3,051 |
| 2010s | 1,368 | #1,098 (2016) | #2,116 |
| 2020s | 699 | #1,533 (2020) | #1,773 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shanaya in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 34,555 of them was named Shanaya, which outranked 84.2% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,819Tamika53
- #2,819Tamra53
- #2,819Vivica53
- #2,854Shanaya52
- #2,854Ahtziri52
- #2,854Ajanae52
- #2,854Alix52
- #2,888Aalyah51
- #2,888Aerial51
- #2,888Akayla51
Tied with 33 names at #2,854; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.