Shenita

Peak · girls
1974 · 75 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,550
since 1954

Shenita over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shenita has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19501960197019801990200020102020peak #1,369, 1974girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2000#15,0315
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1997#10,8367
1996#13,5185
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1994#9,5868
1993#7,49811
1992#4,84920
1991#3,93626
1990#3,02237
1989#2,93137
1988#2,70039
1987#3,10130
1986#1,66970
1985#1,85660
1984#1,86657
1983#1,52274
1982#1,92255
1981#1,79062
1980#1,69267
1979#1,75362
1978#1,37485
1977#1,83255
1976#1,43373
1975#1,60461
1974#1,36975
1973#1,58958
1972#1,69852
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1969#2,39629
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1967#2,78120
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1965#2,29327
1964#2,60023
1963#2,70421
1962#3,29315
1961#3,06017
1960#2,82019
1959#2,98016
1958#3,37913
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First appearance
1954

The first year at least five girls were named Shenita! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1954–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Shenita is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Shenita in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shenita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 1974 at #1,369 (75 births)
  • Births halved by 1987, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 18,022
  • Highest: 1 in 18,022 girls born in 1978 were named Shenita (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 363,207 girls born in 2000 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,369 in 1974, was only 1 in 19,567 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 38.9% of all girls named Shenita (603) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s39#2,980 (1959)#4,516
1960s238#2,022 (1966)#2,603
1970s603#1,369 (1974)#1,670
1980s551#1,522 (1983)#2,105
1990s114#3,022 (1990)#7,606
2000s5#15,031 (2000)#15,031

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.

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