Shanequia
Shanequia was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 162 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanequia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanequia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,155, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1991, the peak
Shanequia peaked in 1991, when 39 girls were given it, #2,976 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,155 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,379 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,343 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,591 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,972 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,945 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,976 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,794 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,113 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,485 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | #9,620 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,829 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,699 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,080 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,819 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,115 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanequia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanequia 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 Shanequia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanequia, and how old are they?
An estimated 158 Americans named Shanequia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 141 people named Shanequia (141 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 159 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,632 babies since 1880, Shanequia is the fourth most given (2.1% 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 Shanequia
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 Shanequia and names like it
- Compare Shanequia and ShaniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanequia peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanequia since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shanequia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanequia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.