Girls' name · since 1974
Shanegua
Shanegua has 12 recorded births since 1974 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1984 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #52,290 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
12 girls have been named Shanegua since 1974, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Shanegua has 12 recorded births among girls since 1974, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 1984.
- #52,290 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 12 born since 1974
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shanegua ranks #52,290 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 12 born since 1974, peaking in the 1980s.
- #52,290 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shanegua's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shanegua's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Shanegua's full recorded timeline at 1984, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1974, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1984 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Shanegua popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–1984
- Peak year (1984)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Shanegua by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (7 births, 58% of the file).
1980s was Shanegua's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Shanegua births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shanegua: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1984)
Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shanegua draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.