Shanay — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanay

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,415 babies named Shanay between 1970 and 2012, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 153 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanay performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 602 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shanay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 182 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanay in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanay 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 1,415 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.