Shanita

Where Shanita comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Shanita.

  • Vowel-ended
Shanita through the years
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #5,566 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #811
    184 babies named Shanita, the most in any year.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,865.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Shanita in Wikidata.

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.