Shanieka — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanieka

The Social Security Administration has registered 220 babies named Shanieka between 1976 and 1997, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanieka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 30 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanieka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shanieka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanieka in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanieka 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 220 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.