Shaniya
Shaniya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 566th, in 2010.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2010517 births
- Best rank
- #566in 2010
- Since 1982
- 6,513people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,513 girls have been named Shaniya in the United States since 1982, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 517 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 59%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Shaniya was the 566th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Shaniya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janasiapeak 2005
- Madysonpeak 2007
- Jalynnpeak 2007
- Makylapeak 2005
- Makayapeak 2007
- Shamiyapeak 2008
- Sanjanapeak 2003
- Makiyapeak 2004
Other spellings in the data
- Shania15,744 ever
- Saniyah7,122 ever
- Saniya6,911 ever
- Shaniyah3,031 ever
- Shanya2,156 ever
- Shaniah1,928 ever
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.