Shanice
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 1988 at #7,270
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 1,859 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,586since 1968
Shanice over time
Rank among girls' names. Shanice has never cracked the top 100 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 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,609 | 71 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,057 | 91 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,477 | 132 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,535 | 123 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,384 | 137 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,158 | 174 | — | |
| 1999 | #727 | 310 | — | |
| 1998 | #958 | 214 | — | |
| 1997 | #820 | 252 | — | |
| 1996 | #684 | 319 | — | |
| 1995 | #508 | 481 | — | |
| 1994 | #342 | 782 | — | |
| 1993 | #212 | 1,345 | — | |
| 1992 | #162 | 1,859 | — | |
| 1991 | #700 | 304 | — | |
| 1990 | #722 | 289 | — | |
| 1989 | #452 | 537 | — | |
| 1988 | #270 | 938 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,088 | 140 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,512 | 39 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,269 | 106 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,555 | 22 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanice! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shanice is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#561 · 1 in 2,826
- New York#664 · 1 in 4,088
- Maryland#787 · 1 in 4,849
- North Carolina#836 · 1 in 5,437
- Ohio#848 · 1 in 6,476
Best ever in a state: #51 in Hawaii, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #561 | 6 | 1 in 2,826 |
| New York | #664 | 24 | 1 in 4,088 |
| Maryland | #787 | 5 | 1 in 4,849 |
| North Carolina | #836 | 8 | 1 in 5,437 |
| Ohio | #848 | 9 | 1 in 6,476 |
| Florida | #864 | 14 | 1 in 5,701 |
| Virginia | #881 | 6 | 1 in 6,006 |
| Georgia | #1,076 | 7 | 1 in 7,106 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,127 | 6 | 1 in 9,420 |
| Illinois | #1,272 | 7 | 1 in 9,899 |
| California | #3,359 | 5 | 1 in 45,332 |
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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 Shanice
- 229 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #11,932)
- 5,009 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #11,932)
- 7,207 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 818 spots in 1988 (#1,088 → #270)
- Biggest drop: 431 spots in 2000 (#727 → #1,158)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1992 at #162 (1,859 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1988–1999
- Highest: 1 in 992 girls born in 1992 were named Shanice (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 64.2% of all girls named Shanice (6,155) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 135 | #3,283 (1978) | #4,753 |
| 1980s | 1,874 | #270 (1988) | #2,356 |
| 1990s | 6,155 | #162 (1992) | #584 |
| 2000s | 1,076 | #1,158 (2000) | #1,940 |
| 2010s | 270 | #3,516 (2010) | #5,267 |
| 2020s | 71 | #5,984 (2022) | #9,259 |
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.
Shanice in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 13,842 of them was named Shanice, which outranked 92.0% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,466Tehya133
- #1,466Yamilet133
- #1,466Yamileth133
- #1,477Shanice132
- #1,477Akasha132
- #1,477Deisy132
- #1,477Jala132
- #1,486Belinda131
- #1,486Chyanne131
- #1,486Dejah131
Tied with 8 names at #1,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.