Girls' name · since 1978
Sheniece
76 babies named Sheniece in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #30,258 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 76
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Sheniece sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 76 recorded since 1978.
Sheniece has 76 recorded births among girls since 1978, 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 1978 to 1997.
- #30,258 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 76 born since 1978
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sheniece ranks #30,258 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 76 born since 1978, peaking in the 1990s.
- #30,258 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 76
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Sheniece's 76 recorded births place it above 58.14% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sheniece's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Sheniece's SSA record in two at 1990 and the more recent half accounts for 49% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 51%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1985, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1990 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Sheniece popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1997
- Peak year (1990)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Sheniece by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (37 births, 49% of the file).
1990s was Sheniece's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Sheniece births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
17 births
- 1980s
1980s
22 births
- 1990s
1990s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 37 births (49% of all-time use).
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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, 1978–1997 (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 Sheniece 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.