Shanieka
Shanieka was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 220 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 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 Shanieka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanieka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,712, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1990, the peak
Shanieka peaked in 1990, when 30 girls were given it, #3,604 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,712 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,140 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,957 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,329 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,604 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,916 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,264 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,622 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,035 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,374 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 17 | #4,456 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,250 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,149 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,725 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,931 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,086 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,507 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,772 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,961 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanieka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanieka 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 Shanieka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanieka, and how old are they?
An estimated 213 Americans named Shanieka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 36 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Shanieka (210 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,195 babies since 1880, Shanieka is the eighth most given (1.8% 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 Shanieka
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 Shanieka and names like it
- Compare Shanieka and ShanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanieka peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanieka since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shanieka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanieka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.