Shanika
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 410 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,599since 1970
Shanika over time
Rank among girls' names. Shanika has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
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| 2020 | — | — | ||
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| 2018 | — | — | ||
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| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
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| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,461 | 56 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,502 | 105 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,380 | 119 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,034 | 178 | — | |
| 1992 | #804 | 250 | — | |
| 1991 | #721 | 289 | — | |
| 1990 | #726 | 288 | — | |
| 1989 | #699 | 284 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #703 | 271 | — | |
| 1987 | #638 | 296 | — | |
| 1986 | #747 | 233 | — | |
| 1985 | #672 | 269 | — | |
| 1984 | #635 | 277 | — | |
| 1983 | #627 | 275 | — | |
| 1982 | #624 | 288 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #675 | 257 | — | |
| 1980 | #672 | 262 | — | |
| 1979 | #493 | 410 | — | |
| 1978 | #638 | 257 | — | |
| 1977 | #796 | 188 | — | |
| 1976 | #988 | 129 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,100 | 106 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,486 | 66 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanika! It came in at #5,818, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2011–2023, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shanika
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 192 spots in 1977 (#988 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 1993 (#804 → #1,034)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1979 at #493 (410 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1976–1992
- Highest: 1 in 3,915 girls born in 1979 were named Shanika (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 180,021 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 48.4% of all girls named Shanika (2,712) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,234 | #493 (1979) | #2,041 |
| 1980s | 2,712 | #624 (1982) | #669 |
| 1990s | 1,469 | #721 (1991) | #1,579 |
| 2000s | 150 | #4,291 (2000) | #8,269 |
| 2010s | 25 | #10,451 (2010) | #14,994 |
| 2020s | 9 | #10,271 (2024) | #10,271 |
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.
Shanika in 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
Top boys' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 5,880 of them was named Shanika, which outranked 94.9% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 362,889 of them was named Shanika, which outranked 13.3% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 982 names at #6,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.