Shoney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shoney

The Social Security Administration has registered 11 babies named Shoney between 1977 and 1979, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shoney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Shoney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shoney performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shoney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 11 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.