Shaniyah

#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births

Peak · girls
2007 · 223 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,057
since 1995

Shaniyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shaniyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202000peak #1,147, 2007girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#5,23824
2024#5,02126
2023#5,39023
2022#4,04136
2021#4,32632
2020#3,06152
2019#3,71840
2018#2,41974
2017#3,30548
2016#3,01055
2015#2,23684
2014#2,11491
2013#1,968100
2012#1,583137
2011#1,427159
2010#1,147213
2009#1,194210
2008#1,167219
2007#1,147223
2006#1,281186
2005#1,162199
2004#1,162195
2003#1,432138
2002#1,632113
2001#1,79599
2000#2,10377
1999#2,03876
1998#2,79847
1997#3,16137
1996#3,30235
1995#8,7669
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First appearance
1995

The first year at least five girls were named Shaniyah! It came in at #8,766, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.

See more about Shaniyah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 217 spots since 2024 (#5,021#5,238)
  • 2,177 spots since 2020 (#3,061#5,238)
  • 3,002 spots since 2015 (#2,236#5,238)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1995
  • Peaked 2007 at #1,147 (223 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,346
  • Highest: 1 in 8,346 girls born in 2010 were named Shaniyah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,147 in 2007, was only 1 in 8,622 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 54.3% of all girls named Shaniyah (1,659) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s204#2,038 (1999)#4,013
2000s1,659#1,147 (2007)#1,408
2010s1,001#1,147 (2010)#2,293
2020s193#3,061 (2020)#4,513

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.

Shaniyah in 2000

girls
#2,103
77 births · 1 in 23,585 girls

Top girls' names in 2000

  1. #1Emily25,959
  2. #2Hannah23,087
  3. #3Madison19,968
  4. #4Ashley18,000
  5. #5Sarah17,715
  6. #6Alexis17,631
  7. #7Samantha17,265
  8. #8Jessica15,711
  9. #9Elizabeth15,117
  10. #10Taylor15,080
  11. #2,103Shaniyah77
More about 2000

girls

1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 23,585 of them was named Shaniyah, which outranked 88.1% 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).

Ranked beside Shaniyah
  1. #2,089Pooja78
  2. #2,089Ramona78
  3. #2,089Trinidy78
  4. #2,103Shaniyah77
  5. #2,103Aditi77
  6. #2,103Alaya77
  7. #2,103Arriana77
  8. #2,122Ajah76
  9. #2,122Alanah76
  10. #2,122Becca76

Tied with 18 names at #2,103; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. 2,528Laisha#3,509#981
  2. 2,131Litzy#2,527#396
  3. 2,096Cielo#2,991#895
  4. 1,864Yamilet#2,703#839
  5. 1,775Nyah#2,567#792
Fallers
  1. 560Tatyanna#951#1,511
  2. 529Jailene#506#1,035
  3. 431Shanice#727#1,158
  4. 384Chantal#921#1,305
  5. 348Infant#658#1,006

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2000