Shaneque
Shaneque was last recorded in 1995, when 7 babies were given it; 120 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 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 Shaneque by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaneque?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,555, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1991, the peak
Shaneque peaked in 1991, when 23 girls were given it, #4,458 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #11,555 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,012 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,971 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,431 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,458 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,395 | 7.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,519 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,875 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,442 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,245 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #9,959 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,127 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,927 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaneque a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaneque has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaneque: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaneque, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Shaneque and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 113 people named Shaneque (113 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,182 babies since 1880, Shaneque is the sixth most given (1.3% 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 Shaneque
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 Shaneque and names like it
- Compare Shaneque and ShaniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaneque peaked in 1991.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaneque since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shaneque.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaneque alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.