Shenia
Shenia was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 360 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shenia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,834, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1982, the peak
Shenia peaked in 1982, when 21 girls were given it, #3,877 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,834 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,968 | 3.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,806 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,751 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,796 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,618 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,401 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,262 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,199 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,713 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 11 | #8,485 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,922 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,026 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,001 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,178 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,311 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,901 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,205 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,286 | 5.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,091 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,987 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,928 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,632 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,877 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,023 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,310 | 5.4 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,827 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,162 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,554 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,552 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,047 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,245 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,831 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,498 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,995 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,666 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,452 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,657 | 3.2 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,450 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,131 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,876 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,165 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,854 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shenia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shenia, and how old are they?
An estimated 341 Americans named Shenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 30 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 371 people named Shenia (368 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,198 babies since 1880, Shenia is the sixth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Shenia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shenia
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 Shenia and names like it
- Compare Shenia and SheenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShenia peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Shenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.