Shaniya
#4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 517 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,541since 1982
Shaniya over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaniya has never cracked the top 500 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 | #4,758 | 28 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 |
| 2018 | #2,841 | 59 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,149 | 90 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 |
| 2014 | #1,602 | 134 |
| 2013 | #1,457 | 153 |
| 2012 | #1,231 | 197 |
| 2011 | #915 | 284 |
| 2010 | #565 | 517 |
| 2009 | #768 | 370 |
| 2008 | #732 | 407 |
| 2007 | #686 | 427 |
| 2006 | #651 | 445 |
| 2005 | #605 | 470 |
| 2004 | #597 | 468 |
| 2003 | #666 | 397 |
| 2002 | #734 | 332 |
| 2001 | #772 | 306 |
| 2000 | #924 | 234 |
| 1999 | #793 | 276 |
| 1998 | #1,290 | 139 |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 |
| 1996 | #1,087 | 170 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
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| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shaniya! It came in at #9,237, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1985, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shaniya is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#458 · 1 in 1,879
- Alabama#605 · 1 in 2,763
- North Carolina#708 · 1 in 3,760
- Florida#841 · 1 in 4,925
- Georgia#874 · 1 in 4,820
Best ever in a state: #95 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #458 | 6 | 1 in 1,879 |
| Alabama | #605 | 7 | 1 in 2,763 |
| North Carolina | #708 | 12 | 1 in 3,760 |
| Florida | #841 | 17 | 1 in 4,925 |
| Georgia | #874 | 10 | 1 in 4,820 |
| Virginia | #908 | 7 | 1 in 5,331 |
| Michigan | #1,101 | 6 | 1 in 7,029 |
| Illinois | #1,264 | 7 | 1 in 8,424 |
| Ohio | #1,288 | 6 | 1 in 8,824 |
| New York | #2,203 | 5 | 1 in 18,490 |
| Texas | #2,336 | 8 | 1 in 20,847 |
| California | #3,434 | 5 | 1 in 41,932 |
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See more about Shaniya
- 263 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #4,758)
- 1,667 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #4,758)
- 2,839 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #4,758)
- Biggest jump: 497 spots in 1999 (#1,290 → #793)
- Biggest drop: 350 spots in 2011 (#565 → #915)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2010 at #565 (517 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1999–2011
- Highest: 1 in 3,438 girls born in 2010 were named Shaniya (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 57,402 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 59.0% of all girls named Shaniya (3,856) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 19 | #8,778 (1987) | #9,187 |
| 1990s | 797 | #793 (1999) | #4,325 |
| 2000s | 3,856 | #597 (2004) | #714 |
| 2010s | 1,665 | #565 (2010) | #1,826 |
| 2020s | 204 | #3,091 (2020) | #4,285 |
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.
Shaniya in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 13,331 of them was named Shaniya, which outranked 91.7% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,590Malina135
- #1,590Renesmee135
- #1,590Zahara135
- #1,602Shaniya134
- #1,602Amerie134
- #1,602Amyah134
- #1,602Bernadette134
- #1,617Halo133
- #1,617Jadyn133
- #1,617Josslyn133
Tied with 14 names at #1,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.