Shaneeka — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaneeka

The Social Security Administration has registered 433 babies named Shaneeka between 1973 and 1995, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaneeka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 32 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaneeka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 236 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shaneeka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaneeka in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaneeka 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 433 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.