Shanique
Shanique was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 1,689 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Shanique and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanique by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanique?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,241, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
185 babies in 1992, the peak
Shanique peaked in 1992, when 185 girls were given it, #1,016 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,241 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,987 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,029 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,891 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,678 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,165 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,308 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,083 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,106 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,270 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 32 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,812 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,091 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,363 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,933 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 124 | #1,342 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 185 | #1,016 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 171 | #1,060 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 177 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,017 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,375 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,713 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,620 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,247 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,928 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,745 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,452 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,811 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanique a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanique has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanique: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanique, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,689 Americans ever recorded as Shanique. The median Shanique alive today is 35 years old; half are between 32 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,823 people named Shanique (1,811 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 209 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 223 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shanique born?
The states with the most babies named Shanique are New York, Georgia and Texas, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 333 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Georgia | 64 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 61 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 52 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 33 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Shanique is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanique is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shanique with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,989 babies since 1880, Shanique is the third most given (19% 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 Shanique
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 Shanique and names like it
- Compare Shanique and ShaniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanique peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanique since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shanique.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanique alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.