Shanyia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanyia

The Social Security Administration has registered 498 babies named Shanyia between 1995 and 2019, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanyia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanyia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 320 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shanyia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanyia in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanyia 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 498 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.