Shanin
Shanin was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 317 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,158, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1969, the peak
Shanin peaked in 1969, when 31 girls were given it, #2,341 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,158 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,713 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,452 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,348 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,468 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,565 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,153 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,486 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,644 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,521 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 9 | #7,875 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,441 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,833 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,023 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,232 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,810 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,902 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,160 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,249 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,845 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,546 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,668 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,500 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,041 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,630 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,506 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,341 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,181 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,436 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,333 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanin, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Shanin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 41 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 391 people named Shanin (345 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 364,293 babies since 1880, Shanin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 116 babies recorded by SSA was a Shanin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shanin
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 Shanin and names like it
- Compare Shanin and ShannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sShanin peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanin since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Shanin.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shanin alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.