Sheniqua

Where Sheniqua comes from

The dictionaries list Sheniqua as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,070 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #1,779
    80 babies named Sheniqua — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,506.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
Namesakes

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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.