Shani
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #10,349
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1969 · 223 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,525since 1962
Shani over time
Rank among girls' names. Shani has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,802 | 79 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,590 | 96 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,225 | 142 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,270 | 132 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,523 | 101 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,722 | 74 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #1,446 | 90 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,351 | 96 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,287 | 104 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,550 | 73 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,295 | 94 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,363 | 90 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,294 | 98 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | — | |
| 1979 | #995 | 143 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,059 | 126 | — | |
| 1977 | #971 | 142 | — | |
| 1976 | #980 | 130 | — | |
| 1975 | #891 | 148 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #825 | 162 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,028 | 114 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,030 | 113 | — | |
| 1971 | #802 | 175 | — | |
| 1970 | #795 | 176 | — | |
| 1969 | #664 | 223 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,126 | 32 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,952 | 35 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shani! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Shani is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#203 · 1 in 831
- Mississippi#486 · 1 in 3,037
- Georgia#521 · 1 in 3,860
- Alabama#554 · 1 in 4,301
- New Jersey#607 · 1 in 5,031
Best ever in a state: #203 in District of Columbia, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #203 | 7 | 1 in 831 |
| Mississippi | #486 | 5 | 1 in 3,037 |
| Georgia | #521 | 8 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Alabama | #554 | 5 | 1 in 4,301 |
| New Jersey | #607 | 7 | 1 in 5,031 |
| Illinois | #697 | 11 | 1 in 6,356 |
| Pennsylvania | #702 | 8 | 1 in 8,051 |
| New York | #756 | 15 | 1 in 6,687 |
| California | #1,093 | 13 | 1 in 11,067 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shani
- 5,538 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #11,932)
- 5,303 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #11,932)
- 7,079 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 1,462 spots in 1969 (#2,126 → #664)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 1980 (#995 → #1,260)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1969 at #664 (223 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1974–1977
- Highest: 1 in 7,565 girls born in 1969 were named Shani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.6% of all girls named Shani (1,429) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 413 | #664 (1969) | #2,877 |
| 1970s | 1,429 | #795 (1970) | #938 |
| 1980s | 920 | #1,260 (1980) | #1,405 |
| 1990s | 866 | #1,225 (1992) | #1,867 |
| 2000s | 592 | #2,304 (2001) | #2,822 |
| 2010s | 216 | #3,689 (2010) | #6,552 |
| 2020s | 89 | #5,752 (2023) | #7,951 |
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.
Shani in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 11,270 of them was named Shani, which outranked 91.0% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #971Torie131
- #971Trinity131
- #971Valeria131
- #980Shani130
- #980Damaris130
- #980Danna130
- #980Emilie130
- #988Bonita129
- #988Esperanza129
- #988Josefina129
Tied with 7 names at #980; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.