Shaniyah
Shaniyah was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,373 among girls’ names; 3,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Shaniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaniyah?
#5,373 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaniyah fell from #2,255 in 2015 to #5,373 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.1 to 14.9 per million.
223 babies in 2007, the peak
Shaniyah peaked in 2007, when 223 girls were given it, #1,150 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,373 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,126 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,521 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,097 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,393 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,088 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,778 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,434 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,342 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,051 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,255 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,975 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,589 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 213 | #1,148 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 210 | #1,196 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,176 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 223 | #1,150 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 186 | #1,285 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 199 | #1,163 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,165 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,437 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,639 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,802 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,117 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,046 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,347 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,414 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaniyah, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,057 Americans ever recorded as Shaniyah. The median Shaniyah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,115 people named Shaniyah (2,114 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 43 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 681 |
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 Shaniyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,531 | 1.9× |
Where Shaniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaniyah is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1995 it was given 2.9 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 Shaniyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shaniyah?
Shaniyah is a less common spelling of Shania: SSA has recorded 3,057 Shaniyah and 15,814 Shania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,479 babies since 1880, Shaniyah is the fourth most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 227 babies (11%), again the fourth most given.
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 Shaniyah
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 Shaniyah and names like it
- Compare Shaniyah and ShaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaniyah peaked in 2007.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Shaniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.