Shanay
Shanay is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1992153 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1970
- 1,460people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,415 girls have been named Shanay in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 153 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 153 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 43%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 45 boys have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.
By decade
In 1992, its biggest year
Shanay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Shanay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shanaepeak 1991
- Shaquanapeak 1991
- Shaquitapeak 1986
- Porshapeak 1989
- Shaneapeak 1991
- Chelsapeak 1990
- Porschepeak 1987
- Shaneepeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.