Sheneka
Sheneka was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 822 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheneka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheneka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,768, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1982, the peak
Sheneka peaked in 1982, when 64 girls were given it, #1,753 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,768 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,408 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,373 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,050 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,963 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,503 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,790 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,796 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,995 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,379 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 45 | #2,356 | 25.9 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,377 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,350 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,461 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,189 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,753 | 37.8 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,882 | 34.8 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,931 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,973 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,118 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,247 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,166 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,668 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,195 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,319 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,046 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,385 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheneka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheneka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheneka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheneka, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Sheneka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 39 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 658 people named Sheneka (655 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 798 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,987 babies since 1880, Sheneka is the second most given (28% 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 Sheneka
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 Sheneka and names like it
- Compare Sheneka and ShenikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSheneka peaked in 1982.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheneka since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Sheneka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sheneka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.