Shaniyah
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 223 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,057since 1995
Shaniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaniyah 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 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 |
| 2018 | #2,419 | 74 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2014 | #2,114 | 91 |
| 2013 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2012 | #1,583 | 137 |
| 2011 | #1,427 | 159 |
| 2010 | #1,147 | 213 |
| 2009 | #1,194 | 210 |
| 2008 | #1,167 | 219 |
| 2007 | #1,147 | 223 |
| 2006 | #1,281 | 186 |
| 2005 | #1,162 | 199 |
| 2004 | #1,162 | 195 |
| 2003 | #1,432 | 138 |
| 2002 | #1,632 | 113 |
| 2001 | #1,795 | 99 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #2,038 | 76 |
| 1998 | #2,798 | 47 |
| 1997 | #3,161 | 37 |
| 1996 | #3,302 | 35 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
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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.
Where Shaniyah is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#324 · 1 in 1,248
- Alabama#458 · 1 in 2,098
- South Carolina#479 · 1 in 2,133
- Georgia#545 · 1 in 2,641
- Louisiana#549 · 1 in 2,528
Best ever in a state: #170 in Delaware, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #324 | 10 | 1 in 1,248 |
| Alabama | #458 | 10 | 1 in 2,098 |
| South Carolina | #479 | 9 | 1 in 2,133 |
| Georgia | #545 | 20 | 1 in 2,641 |
| Louisiana | #549 | 8 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Maryland | #566 | 9 | 1 in 2,808 |
| North Carolina | #595 | 16 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Virginia | #605 | 12 | 1 in 3,135 |
| Tennessee | #617 | 10 | 1 in 3,219 |
| New Jersey | #713 | 10 | 1 in 3,929 |
| Pennsylvania | #748 | 12 | 1 in 4,612 |
| Illinois | #831 | 14 | 1 in 4,730 |
| Florida | #852 | 17 | 1 in 5,064 |
| Ohio | #868 | 10 | 1 in 5,639 |
| New York | #1,615 | 8 | 1 in 11,941 |
| Texas | #1,996 | 10 | 1 in 16,772 |
| California | #2,896 | 7 | 1 in 32,763 |
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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 Shaniyah
- 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)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2007 at #1,147 (223 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 54.3% of all girls named Shaniyah (1,659) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 204 | #2,038 (1999) | #4,013 |
| 2000s | 1,659 | #1,147 (2007) | #1,408 |
| 2010s | 1,001 | #1,147 (2010) | #2,293 |
| 2020s | 193 | #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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 8,634 of them was named Shaniyah, which outranked 94.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,160Trista221
- #1,165Aubri220
- #1,165Rileigh220
- #1,167Shaniyah219
- #1,167Analia219
- #1,167Arden219
- #1,167Aubrianna219
- #1,178Annaliese218
- #1,178Shaila218
- #1,180Candace217
Tied with 10 names at #1,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.