Shanya
Shanya was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 2,156 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Shanya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 19 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,266, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
182 babies in 2003, the peak
Shanya peaked in 2003, when 182 girls were given it, #1,182 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,266 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,043 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,371 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,447 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,157 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,365 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,707 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,383 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,424 | 14.1 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,938 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,408 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,455 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,979 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,448 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,115 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,117 | 52.3 |
| 2008 | 105 | #2,001 | 55.5 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,856 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,573 | 72.6 |
| 2005 | 167 | #1,324 | 90.4 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,348 | 86.0 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,182 | 99.6 |
| 2002 | 135 | #1,422 | 75.1 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,419 | 74.4 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,477 | 68.8 |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,367 | 73.3 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,156 | 37.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,427 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,733 | 49.6 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,181 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,565 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,369 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,303 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,082 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,177 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,918 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,203 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,247 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,648 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,422 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,006 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,842 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,591 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,506 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,433 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,290 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,525 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,848 | 5.9 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,258 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,475 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanya, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,156 Americans ever recorded as Shanya. The median Shanya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 19 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,735 people named Shanya (1,732 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,093 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 169 |
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 Shanya born?
The states with the most babies named Shanya are New York, Florida and Georgia, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 142 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 137 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 128 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 84 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 59 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 51 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Shanya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shanya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1969 it was given 1.8 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 Shanya 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 Shanya?
Shanya is a less common spelling of Shania: SSA has recorded 2,156 Shanya and 15,814 Shania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,034 babies since 1880, Shanya is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 288 babies recorded by SSA was a Shanya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shanya
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 Shanya and names like it
- Compare Shanya and ShaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShanya peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanya since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Shanya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shanya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.