Shanae
Shanae was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,975 among girls’ names; 3,471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,380 Americans named Shanae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 34 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shanae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shanae is “a female given name from Irish.”
Anglicization of Irish Sinéad q.v. based on its modern Irish pronunciation. Doublet of Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Juanita, and Sinead.
/ʃəˈneɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shanae?
#12,975 among girls’ names, 2025
Shanae fell from #12,829 in 2015 to #12,975 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
409 babies in 1991, the peak
Shanae peaked in 1991, when 409 girls were given it, #572 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,975 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,310 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,040 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,313 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,155 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,607 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,125 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,829 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,798 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,369 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,625 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,287 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,635 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,513 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,027 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,346 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,182 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,469 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,640 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,692 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,917 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,687 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,942 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,333 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,853 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,416 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 336 | #663 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 409 | #572 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 307 | #690 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 204 | #900 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 196 | #896 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 166 | #964 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 170 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 136 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,224 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 85 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,976 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,872 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,985 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,456 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,651 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,665 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,486 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,096 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,733 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,643 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanae, and how old are they?
3,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,471 Americans ever recorded as Shanae. The median Shanae alive today is 36 years old; half are between 34 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,948 people named Shanae (2,928 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 349 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 443 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 69 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shanae born?
The states with the most babies named Shanae are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 361 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 264 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 204 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 186 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Michigan | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 88 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 69 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Shanae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanae is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1967 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shanae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 138,350 babies since 1880, Shanae is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 274 babies (2.6%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shanae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shanae and names like it
- Compare Shanae and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanae peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanae since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Shanae: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shanae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.