Shaniquia
Shaniquia was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 139 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaniquia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaniquia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,190, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1991, the peak
Shaniquia peaked in 1991, when 27 girls were given it, #3,914 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #13,190 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,349 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,560 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,389 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,062 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,914 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,492 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,076 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,172 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,824 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,582 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,134 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaniquia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaniquia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaniquia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaniquia, and how old are they?
An estimated 136 Americans named Shaniquia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 131 people named Shaniquia (128 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,031 babies since 1880, Shaniquia is the fifth most given (1.5% 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 Shaniquia
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 Shaniquia and names like it
- Compare Shaniquia and ShaniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaniquia peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaniquia since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shaniquia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaniquia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.