Shanaya
Shanaya was given to 97 girls in 2025, #1,988 among girls’ names; 3,149 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,120 Americans named Shanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanaya?
#1,988 among girls’ names, 2025
Shanaya fell from #1,385 in 2015 to #1,988 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 95.8 to 60.4 per million.
234 babies in 2016, the peak
Shanaya peaked in 2016, when 234 girls were given it, #1,100 among girls’ names. The 97 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,988 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,117 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,633 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,645 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,767 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,542 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 213 | #1,159 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,100 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,385 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 130 | #1,643 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,107 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,663 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,195 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,934 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,574 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,470 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,407 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,625 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,473 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,174 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,881 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,800 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,532 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,108 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,223 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,748 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,394 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,589 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,637 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,727 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,629 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,547 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,808 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,508 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,254 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,835 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,575 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanaya, and how old are they?
3,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,149 Americans ever recorded as Shanaya. The median Shanaya alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,158 people named Shanaya (2,150 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,462 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 387 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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 Shanaya born?
The states with the most babies named Shanaya are Texas, California and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,523 | 0.7× |
| California | 15 | #1,566 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,667 | 0.9× |
| New York | 7 | #1,805 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,254 | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,148 | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,606 | 0.7× |
Where Shanaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanaya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 2.4 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 Shanaya 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 92,308 babies since 1880, Shanaya is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 258 babies (38%), the most given that year.
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 Shanaya
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 Shanaya and names like it
- Compare Shanaya and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShanaya peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Shanaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shanaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.