Shanica — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanica

The Social Security Administration has registered 409 babies named Shanica between 1973 and 1997, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanica currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 30 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanica performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shanica shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanica in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanica 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 409 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.