Shanigua — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanigua

The Social Security Administration has registered 59 babies named Shanigua between 1980 and 1992, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanigua currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanigua performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 35 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Shanigua shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shanigua in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanigua 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 59 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.