Shanai — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanai

The Social Security Administration has registered 392 babies named Shanai between 1974 and 2018, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanai currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanai performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shanai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 392 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.