Girls' name · since 1979
Shanikia
Shanikia has 87 recorded births since 1979 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1982 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,744 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 87
- born since 1979
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shanikia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 87 have been recorded since 1979.
Shanikia has 87 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 1993.
- #28,744 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 87 born since 1979
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shanikia ranks #28,744 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 87 born since 1979, peaking in the 1980s.
- #28,744 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 87
- born since 1979
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shanikia's 87 recorded births place it above 60.23% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shanikia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Shanikia splits its recorded history at 1986: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1979 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1982 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Shanikia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–1993
- Peak year (1982)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Shanikia by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (70 births, 80% of the file).
1980s was Shanikia's strongest decade.
70 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 80% of all-time use.
Shanikia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
70 births
- 1990s 12
1990s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 70 births (80% of all-time use).
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- Shanikia's decade-level peak was the 1980s (70 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shanikia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1982)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shanikia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.