Girls' name · since 1970
Shawnise
92 babies named Shawnise in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,097 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 92
- born since 1970
- 1990s
- peak decade
Shawnise sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 92 recorded since 1970.
Shawnise has 92 recorded births among girls since 1970, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1970 to 1998.
- #28,097 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 92 born since 1970
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shawnise ranks #28,097 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 92 born since 1970, peaking in the 1990s.
- #28,097 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 92
- born since 1970
- 1990s
- peak decade
Shawnise's 92 recorded births place it above 61.12% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shawnise's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Shawnise's full recorded timeline at 1991, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1971, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1990 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Shawnise popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–1998
- Peak year (1990)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Shawnise by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (60 births, 65% of the file).
1990s was Shawnise's strongest decade.
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Shawnise births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 17
1970s
17 births
- 1980s 15
1980s
15 births
- 1990s
1990s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 60 births (65% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shawnise: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1990)
Similar record span (~28 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1970–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shawnise draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.