Shany — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shany

The Social Security Administration has registered 85 babies named Shany between 1987 and 2023, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shany currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shany performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 26 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shany shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shany in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shany 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 85 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.