Girls' name · since 1996
Sheniya
100 babies named Sheniya in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #27,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 100
- born since 1996
- 2000s
- peak decade
Sheniya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 100 have been recorded since 1996.
Sheniya has 100 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2016.
- #27,156 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 100 born since 1996
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sheniya ranks #27,156 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 100 born since 1996, peaking in the 2000s.
- #27,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 100
- born since 1996
- 2000s
- peak decade
Sheniya's 100 recorded births place it above 62.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sheniya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Sheniya splits its recorded history at 2005: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1998 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2006 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Sheniya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2016
- Peak year (2006)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Sheniya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (74 births, 74% of the file).
2000s was Sheniya's strongest decade.
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 74% of all-time use.
Sheniya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 16
1990s
16 births
- 2000s
2000s
74 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 74 births (74% of all-time use).
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- Sheniya's decade-level peak was the 2000s (74 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Sheniya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~20 yrs)
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, 1996–2016 (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 Sheniya 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.