Shaniah
Shaniah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,773 among girls’ names; 1,936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Shaniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaniah?
#11,773 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaniah fell from #5,998 in 2015 to #11,773 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 5.0 per million.
148 babies in 2001, the peak
Shaniah peaked in 2001, when 148 girls were given it, #1,302 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,773 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,263 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,030 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,455 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,377 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,900 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,377 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,759 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,315 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,864 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,998 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,766 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,901 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,412 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,862 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,358 | 45.6 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,416 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,232 | 47.1 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,854 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,937 | 54.7 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,787 | 59.5 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,808 | 57.7 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,800 | 57.5 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,620 | 64.0 |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,302 | 82.2 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,393 | 35.8 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,511 | 64.3 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,814 | 48.7 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,219 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,235 | 81.0 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,718 | 25.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,677 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,399 | 4.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,641 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaniah, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,936 Americans ever recorded as Shaniah. The median Shaniah alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,494 people named Shaniah (1,493 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,854 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 207 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shaniah born?
The states with the most babies named Shaniah are Florida, New York and Georgia, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 145 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 129 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 102 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 55 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 52 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Shaniah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaniah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1990 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaniah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shaniah?
Shaniah is a less common spelling of Shania: SSA has recorded 1,936 Shaniah and 15,814 Shania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 93,481 babies since 1880, Shaniah is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 176 babies (4.5%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Shaniah
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 Shaniah and names like it
- Compare Shaniah and ShaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaniah peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Shaniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.