Shanee
Shanee was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 1,504 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Shanee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 35 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,119, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
117 babies in 1990, the peak
Shanee peaked in 1990, when 117 girls were given it, #1,359 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,119 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,392 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,743 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,074 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,785 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,706 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,581 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,106 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,866 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,906 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 15 | #6,782 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,758 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,431 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,004 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,814 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,351 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,516 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 113 | #1,429 | 61.3 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,432 | 59.7 |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,359 | 61.6 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,779 | 41.2 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,311 | 62.3 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,744 | 39.7 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,711 | 40.2 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,924 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,955 | 31.5 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,852 | 34.1 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,521 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 53 | #2,005 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,930 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,178 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,380 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,118 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,473 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,797 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,820 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,315 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,380 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,476 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,839 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,868 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,078 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,388 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,386 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanee, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,504 Americans ever recorded as Shanee. The median Shanee alive today is 38 years old; half are between 35 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,202 people named Shanee (1,192 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,466 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 323 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 115 |
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 Shanee born?
The states with the most babies named Shanee are New York, California and Maryland, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 186 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 178 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 36 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shanee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanee is most over-represented in New York: since 1964 it was given 1.7 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 Shanee 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 87,072 babies since 1880, Shanee is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Shanee (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 Shanee
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 Shanee and names like it
- Compare Shanee and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanee peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanee since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shanee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.