Shania
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 1,837 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,814since 1970
Shania over time
Rank among girls' names. Shania has never cracked the top 100 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 | #2,514 | 70 |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,033 | 96 |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2021 | #1,910 | 103 |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 |
| 2019 | #2,056 | 92 |
| 2018 | #1,520 | 143 |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 128 |
| 2015 | #1,655 | 129 |
| 2014 | #1,459 | 154 |
| 2013 | #1,203 | 199 |
| 2012 | #1,162 | 211 |
| 2011 | #898 | 290 |
| 2010 | #955 | 268 |
| 2009 | #834 | 335 |
| 2008 | #660 | 464 |
| 2007 | #569 | 527 |
| 2006 | #487 | 639 |
| 2005 | #436 | 707 |
| 2004 | #385 | 812 |
| 2003 | #327 | 955 |
| 2002 | #468 | 605 |
| 2001 | #383 | 763 |
| 2000 | #291 | 1,098 |
| 1999 | #190 | 1,639 |
| 1998 | #286 | 1,049 |
| 1997 | #331 | 861 |
| 1996 | #171 | 1,837 |
| 1995 | #445 | 576 |
| 1994 | #2,047 | 68 |
| 1993 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 1992 | #2,459 | 52 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 |
| 1987 | #2,723 | 36 |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shania! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Shania is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#287 · 1 in 1,002
- Connecticut#443 · 1 in 2,103
- New York#481 · 1 in 2,494
- Florida#540 · 1 in 2,839
- New Jersey#566 · 1 in 2,948
Best ever in a state: #27 in Hawaii, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #287 | 8 | 1 in 1,002 |
| Connecticut | #443 | 6 | 1 in 2,103 |
| New York | #481 | 38 | 1 in 2,494 |
| Florida | #540 | 29 | 1 in 2,839 |
| New Jersey | #566 | 13 | 1 in 2,948 |
| Mississippi | #577 | 5 | 1 in 2,353 |
| North Carolina | #578 | 16 | 1 in 2,901 |
| Indiana | #580 | 11 | 1 in 2,882 |
| Michigan | #625 | 12 | 1 in 3,562 |
| Louisiana | #629 | 7 | 1 in 2,951 |
| Virginia | #652 | 11 | 1 in 3,336 |
| South Carolina | #657 | 6 | 1 in 3,093 |
| Tennessee | #659 | 9 | 1 in 3,391 |
| Missouri | #667 | 8 | 1 in 3,501 |
| Ohio | #687 | 14 | 1 in 3,889 |
| Maryland | #765 | 6 | 1 in 4,120 |
| Pennsylvania | #786 | 11 | 1 in 4,966 |
| Alabama | #797 | 5 | 1 in 4,003 |
| Minnesota | #836 | 5 | 1 in 4,958 |
| Washington | #845 | 7 | 1 in 4,480 |
| Illinois | #963 | 11 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Georgia | #1,016 | 9 | 1 in 5,636 |
| Texas | #1,105 | 24 | 1 in 6,944 |
| California | #1,294 | 23 | 1 in 9,491 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shania
- 93 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #2,514)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #2,514)
- 859 spots since 2015 (#1,655 → #2,514)
- Biggest jump: 1,602 spots in 1995 (#2,047 → #445)
- Biggest drop: 264 spots in 2012 (#898 → #1,162)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1996 at #171 (1,837 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1995–2011
- Highest: 1 in 954 girls born in 1996 were named Shania (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.7% of all girls named Shania (6,905) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 112 | #3,442 (1979) | #5,641 |
| 1980s | 315 | #2,362 (1985) | #2,997 |
| 1990s | 6,256 | #171 (1996) | #1,314 |
| 2000s | 6,905 | #291 (2000) | #484 |
| 2010s | 1,715 | #898 (2011) | #1,454 |
| 2020s | 511 | #1,910 (2021) | #2,220 |
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.
Shania in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,484 of them was named Shania, which outranked 95.9% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #831Jayde337
- #831Karissa337
- #831Rosalie337
- #834Shania335
- #834Calleigh335
- #834Hana335
- #834India335
- #839Kourtney334
- #840Edith333
- #841Angeline332
Tied with 4 names at #834; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.