Shaneequa
Shaneequa was last recorded in 1995, when 7 babies were given it; 170 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaneequa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shaneequa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shaneequa is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shaneequa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,552, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1991, the peak
Shaneequa peaked in 1991, when 25 girls were given it, #4,177 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #11,552 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,028 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,557 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,009 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,177 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,830 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,112 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,839 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,601 | 4.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,413 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #11,827 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,014 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,078 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,286 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,957 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,825 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaneequa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaneequa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaneequa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaneequa, and how old are they?
An estimated 165 Americans named Shaneequa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 34 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 147 people named Shaneequa (146 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,493 babies since 1880, Shaneequa is the third most given (2.3% of them).
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 Shaneequa
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 Shaneequa and names like it
- Compare Shaneequa and ShaniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaneequa peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaneequa since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Shaneequa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shaneequa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaneequa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.