Shanicka
Shanicka was last recorded in 1994, when 7 babies were given it; 217 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanicka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanicka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,559, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1979, the peak
Shanicka peaked in 1979, when 18 girls were given it, #4,191 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7 | #11,559 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,563 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,956 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,871 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,772 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,235 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,021 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,874 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,447 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,300 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 16 | #4,693 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,094 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,355 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,517 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,680 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,191 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,307 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,771 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,484 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanicka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanicka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanicka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanicka, and how old are they?
An estimated 210 Americans named Shanicka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 37 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Shanicka (187 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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).
How common is the spelling Shanicka?
Shanicka is a less common spelling of Shanika: SSA has recorded 217 Shanicka and 5,610 Shanika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,715 babies since 1880, Shanicka is the eighth most given (1.1% 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 Shanicka
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 Shanicka and names like it
- Compare Shanicka and ShanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShanicka peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shanicka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanicka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.