Shanique — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanique

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,689 babies named Shanique between 1970 and 2013, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanique currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 185 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanique performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 985 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shanique shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 333 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanique in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanique 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 1,689 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.