Shenequa
Shenequa was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 506 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shenequa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shenequa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shenequa is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shenequa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,209, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1992, the peak
Shenequa peaked in 1992, when 47 girls were given it, #2,641 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,209 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,769 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,507 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,142 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,601 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,404 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,641 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,869 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,984 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,105 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 13 | #6,222 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,659 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,698 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,106 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,299 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,653 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,744 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,326 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,488 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,595 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,650 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,204 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,386 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,553 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,679 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,931 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,080 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,766 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,743 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,890 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shenequa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shenequa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shenequa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shenequa, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Shenequa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Shenequa (430 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 492 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,475 babies since 1880, Shenequa is the second most given (34% 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 Shenequa
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 Shenequa and names like it
- Compare Shenequa and SheniquaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShenequa peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shenequa since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Shenequa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shenequa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shenequa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.