Shaniah
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 142 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,936since 1990
Shaniah over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaniah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 |
| 2013 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,341 | 81 |
| 2009 | #2,396 | 80 |
| 2008 | #2,218 | 89 |
| 2007 | #1,848 | 114 |
| 2006 | #1,933 | 104 |
| 2005 | #1,778 | 110 |
| 2004 | #1,795 | 106 |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 |
| 2001 | #1,299 | 148 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 |
| 1999 | #1,502 | 114 |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,232 | 142 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
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| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shaniah! It came in at #11,409, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shaniah is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#330 · 1 in 1,450
- Massachusetts#705 · 1 in 6,440
- Arizona#752 · 1 in 4,745
- Washington#818 · 1 in 5,708
- Michigan#848 · 1 in 7,435
Best ever in a state: #228 in Hawaii, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #330 | 6 | 1 in 1,450 |
| Massachusetts | #705 | 5 | 1 in 6,440 |
| Arizona | #752 | 6 | 1 in 4,745 |
| Washington | #818 | 5 | 1 in 5,708 |
| Michigan | #848 | 7 | 1 in 7,435 |
| New Jersey | #858 | 6 | 1 in 7,055 |
| Ohio | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 10,354 |
| Florida | #1,068 | 8 | 1 in 9,092 |
| New York | #1,122 | 11 | 1 in 9,485 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,142 | 5 | 1 in 12,110 |
| California | #2,094 | 9 | 1 in 25,532 |
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See more about Shaniah
- 1,244 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #10,917)
- 3,358 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #10,917)
- 5,084 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 1996 at #1,232 (142 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,166 girls born in 2001 were named Shaniah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,232 in 1996, was only 1 in 12,345 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.5% of all girls named Shaniah (1,036) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 473 | #1,232 (1996) | #4,814 |
| 2000s | 1,036 | #1,299 (2001) | #1,903 |
| 2010s | 358 | #2,341 (2010) | #4,750 |
| 2020s | 69 | #6,174 (2021) | #9,335 |
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.
Shaniah in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,345 of them was named Shaniah, which outranked 92.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,225Renae143
- #1,225Ricki143
- #1,225Star143
- #1,232Shaniah142
- #1,232Catrina142
- #1,232Kelsy142
- #1,232Kennedi142
- #1,238Camilla141
- #1,238Corrine141
- #1,238Elle141
Tied with 5 names at #1,232; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.