Shani
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #10,349
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1969 · 223 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,525since 1962
Shani over time
Rank among girls' names. Shani has never cracked the top 600 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 | #6,394 | 18 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,802 | 79 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,590 | 96 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,225 | 142 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,270 | 132 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,523 | 101 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,722 | 74 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #1,446 | 90 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,351 | 96 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,287 | 104 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,550 | 73 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,295 | 94 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,363 | 90 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,294 | 98 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | — | |
| 1979 | #995 | 143 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,059 | 126 | — | |
| 1977 | #971 | 142 | — | |
| 1976 | #980 | 130 | — | |
| 1975 | #891 | 148 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #825 | 162 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,028 | 114 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,030 | 113 | — | |
| 1971 | #802 | 175 | — | |
| 1970 | #795 | 176 | — | |
| 1969 | #664 | 223 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,126 | 32 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,952 | 35 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shani! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shani
- 5,538 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #11,932)
- 5,303 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #11,932)
- 7,079 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 1,462 spots in 1969 (#2,126 → #664)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 1980 (#995 → #1,260)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1969 at #664 (223 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1974–1977
- Highest: 1 in 7,565 girls born in 1969 were named Shani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.6% of all girls named Shani (1,429) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 413 | #664 (1969) | #2,877 |
| 1970s | 1,429 | #795 (1970) | #938 |
| 1980s | 920 | #1,260 (1980) | #1,405 |
| 1990s | 866 | #1,225 (1992) | #1,867 |
| 2000s | 592 | #2,304 (2001) | #2,822 |
| 2010s | 216 | #3,689 (2010) | #6,552 |
| 2020s | 89 | #5,752 (2023) | #7,951 |
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.
Shani in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 30,780 of them was named Shani, which outranked 85.6% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,508Vivica60
- #2,508Vivien60
- #2,508Zoya60
- #2,545Shani59
- #2,545Amayah59
- #2,545Bryonna59
- #2,545Caterina59
- #2,569Alasia58
- #2,569Aurelia58
- #2,569Brittnee58
Tied with 23 names at #2,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 392,800 of them was named Shani, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,112Zubin6
- #9,112Zykee6
- #9,112Zyshaun6
- #10,349Shani5
- #10,349Aadarsh5
- #10,349Aaronjacob5
- #10,349Aaronjoshua5
Tied with 1,770 names at #10,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.