Shenica
Shenica was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 132 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shenica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shenica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,108, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1977, the peak
Shenica peaked in 1977, when 12 girls were given it, #5,478 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #13,108 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,230 | 4.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,665 | 3.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,516 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,200 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,887 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,769 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,372 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,912 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,255 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 | #7,924 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,504 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,478 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,049 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,290 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,306 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shenica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shenica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shenica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shenica, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Shenica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 42 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 127 people named Shenica (127 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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).
How common is the spelling Shenica?
Shenica is a less common spelling of Shenika: SSA has recorded 132 Shenica and 1,839 Shenika since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,264 babies since 1880, Shenica is the fourth most given (4.0% 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 Shenica
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 Shenica and names like it
- Compare Shenica and ShenikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShenica peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shenica.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shenica alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.