Shanea
Shanea was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,131 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Shanea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,811, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 1991, the peak
Shanea peaked in 1991, when 95 girls were given it, #1,601 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,811 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,370 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,274 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,742 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,465 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,502 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,173 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,257 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,640 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,407 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 14 | #7,754 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,975 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,660 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,701 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,925 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,822 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,916 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,648 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,684 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,401 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,777 | 44.5 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,601 | 50.7 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,854 | 40.6 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,158 | 30.9 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,854 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,984 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,163 | 28.6 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,586 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,411 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,837 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,622 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,830 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,055 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,317 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,999 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,029 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,506 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,100 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,686 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,969 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,391 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,926 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanea, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,131 Americans ever recorded as Shanea. The median Shanea alive today is 36 years old; half are between 32 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 912 people named Shanea (907 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 738 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 192 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 138,009 babies since 1880, Shanea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 288 babies recorded by SSA was a Shanea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shanea
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 Shanea and names like it
- Compare Shanea and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanea peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanea since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shanea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.