Shanekia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanekia

The Social Security Administration has registered 283 babies named Shanekia between 1975 and 1996, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanekia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanekia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shanekia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanekia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanekia 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 283 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.