Shanece — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanece

The Social Security Administration has registered 357 babies named Shanece between 1983 and 2017, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanece currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 56 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanece performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 221 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shanece shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanece in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanece 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 357 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.