Shanyce
Shanyce was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 267 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shanyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shanyce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,749, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1992, the peak
Shanyce peaked in 1992, when 30 girls were given it, #3,651 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,749 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,162 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,501 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,810 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,794 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,773 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,520 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,950 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,258 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,757 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 16 | #6,430 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,474 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,655 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,027 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,636 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,518 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,950 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,651 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,614 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,388 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,919 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,271 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,894 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shanyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shanyce has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shanyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shanyce, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Shanyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Shanyce (239 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 264 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
How common is the spelling Shanyce?
Shanyce is a less common spelling of Shanice: SSA has recorded 267 Shanyce and 9,591 Shanice since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,821 babies since 1880, Shanyce is the seventh most given (1.9% 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 Shanyce
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 Shanyce and names like it
- Compare Shanyce and ShaniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShanyce peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shanyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shanyce.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shanyce alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.