Shanita

Where Shanita comes from

The dictionaries list Shanita as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #5,566 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #811
    184 babies named Shanita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,865.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Shanita turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.