Shanitra
Shanitra was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 273 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 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 Shanitra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanitra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,192, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1991, the peak
Shanitra peaked in 1991, when 18 girls were given it, #5,354 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #13,192 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,562 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,974 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,620 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,354 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,397 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,877 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,262 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,035 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,691 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 14 | #5,301 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,210 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,899 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,496 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,288 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,701 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,698 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,221 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,392 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,117 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,754 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanitra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanitra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanitra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanitra, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Shanitra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 36 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 247 people named Shanitra (246 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 680 babies since 1880, Shanitra is the most given (40% 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 Shanitra
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 Shanitra and names like it
- Compare Shanitra and ShanetraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanitra peaked in 1991.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanitra since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shanitra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shanitra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.