Shenita
Last seen for girls in 2000 at #15,031
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 75 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,550since 1954
Shenita over time
Rank among girls' names. Shenita 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
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
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| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
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| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 |
| 1989 | #2,931 | 37 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,856 | 60 |
| 1984 | #1,866 | 57 |
| 1983 | #1,522 | 74 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 |
| 1981 | #1,790 | 62 |
| 1980 | #1,692 | 67 |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 |
| 1978 | #1,374 | 85 |
| 1977 | #1,832 | 55 |
| 1976 | #1,433 | 73 |
| 1975 | #1,604 | 61 |
| 1974 | #1,369 | 75 |
| 1973 | #1,589 | 58 |
| 1972 | #1,698 | 52 |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 |
| 1970 | #1,986 | 42 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 |
| 1965 | #2,293 | 27 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 |
| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shenita! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shenita
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1974 at #1,369 (75 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,022 girls born in 1978 were named Shenita (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 363,207 girls born in 2000 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,369 in 1974, was only 1 in 19,567 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.9% of all girls named Shenita (603) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 39 | #2,980 (1959) | #4,516 |
| 1960s | 238 | #2,022 (1966) | #2,603 |
| 1970s | 603 | #1,369 (1974) | #1,670 |
| 1980s | 551 | #1,522 (1983) | #2,105 |
| 1990s | 114 | #3,022 (1990) | #7,606 |
| 2000s | 5 | #15,031 (2000) | #15,031 |
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.
Shenita in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
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1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 19,567 of them was named Shenita, which outranked 86.6% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,364Lani76
- #1,364Shayne76
- #1,364Sophie76
- #1,369Shenita75
- #1,369Abbie75
- #1,369Apryl75
- #1,369Catharine75
- #1,386Asia74
- #1,386Dacia74
- #1,386Delana74
Tied with 16 names at #1,369; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.