Shaniya
Shaniya was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,862 among girls’ names; 6,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,470 Americans named Shaniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaniya?
#4,862 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaniya fell from #1,933 in 2015 to #4,862 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 58.8 to 17.4 per million.
517 babies in 2010, the peak
Shaniya peaked in 2010, when 517 girls were given it, #567 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,862 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,125 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,104 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,453 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,490 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,133 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,267 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,864 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,381 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,165 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,933 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,463 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 197 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 284 | #917 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 517 | #567 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 370 | #769 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 407 | #735 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 427 | #686 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 445 | #652 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 470 | #605 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 468 | #599 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 397 | #667 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 332 | #735 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 306 | #776 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 234 | #924 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 276 | #793 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 139 | #1,292 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,547 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,090 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,867 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,935 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,192 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,427 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,247 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaniya, and how old are they?
6,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,541 Americans ever recorded as Shaniya. The median Shaniya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,790 people named Shaniya (4,778 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 865 |
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 Shaniya born?
The states with the most babies named Shaniya are Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 600 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 553 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 540 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New York | 478 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 321 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 305 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Virginia | 286 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 260 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 246 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 221 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Shaniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaniya is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1982 it was given 3.3 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 Shaniya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 103,233 babies since 1880, Shaniya is the fifth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 333 babies (8.4%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Shaniya
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 Shaniya and names like it
- Compare Shaniya and ShanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShaniya peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Shaniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.