Shanice
Shanice was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,977 among girls’ names; 9,591 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,390 Americans named Shanice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 30 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shanice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shanice is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
/ʃəˈniːs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shanice?
#12,977 among girls’ names, 2025
Shanice fell from #4,838 in 2015 to #12,977 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 4.4 per million.
1,859 babies in 1992, the peak
Shanice peaked in 1992, when 1,859 girls were given it, #162 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,977 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,507 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,179 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,195 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,175 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,363 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,783 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,111 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,838 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,691 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,343 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,561 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,083 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,626 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,505 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,048 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,069 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,627 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,483 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,545 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,394 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 174 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 310 | #728 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 214 | #961 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 252 | #822 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 319 | #686 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 481 | #509 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 782 | #342 | 0.44 |
| 1993 | 1,345 | #213 | 0.74 |
| 1992 | 1,859 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 304 | #700 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 289 | #724 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 537 | #452 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 938 | #270 | 0.53 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,092 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,275 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,978 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,654 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,296 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,115 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,190 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,368 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,818 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,795 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,091 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,689 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,843 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,757 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,965 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanice has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shanice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanice, and how old are they?
9,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,591 Americans ever recorded as Shanice. The median Shanice alive today is 33 years old; half are between 30 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 8,381 people named Shanice (8,362 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,375 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
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 Shanice born?
The states with the most babies named Shanice are New York, Florida and California, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,407 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 760 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 602 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 477 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 419 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 389 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 381 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 343 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 338 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 334 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Shanice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanice is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 2.1 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 Shanice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,333 babies since 1880, Shanice is the most given (50% 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 Shanice
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 Shanice and names like it
- Compare Shanice and ShanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanice peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanice since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Shanice: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shanice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.