Shanica
Shanica was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 409 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,710, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1985, the peak
Shanica peaked in 1985, when 30 girls were given it, #3,068 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,710 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,380 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,678 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,153 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,498 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,613 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,094 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,810 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,549 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,560 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 27 | #3,343 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,068 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,826 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,249 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,683 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,514 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,973 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,225 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,047 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,886 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,130 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,090 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,688 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,214 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanica, and how old are they?
An estimated 394 Americans named Shanica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 36 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 370 people named Shanica (370 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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).
How common is the spelling Shanica?
Shanica is a less common spelling of Shanika: SSA has recorded 409 Shanica and 5,610 Shanika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,944 babies since 1880, Shanica is the eighth most given (1.9% 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 Shanica
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 Shanica and names like it
- Compare Shanica and ShanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShanica peaked in 1985.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanica since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Shanica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.