Meaning not yet researched.
Shanae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #572 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #572 in 1991; #12,979 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,979 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #572.
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Shanae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #572 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 409 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Shanae, making it the 12,979th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,336 places from #17,315 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Shanae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #572, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 409. For comparison, it was #12,834 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanae in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 3,471 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,512 babies named Shanae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 45 US girls were named Shanae; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880), Shauna (28,121 babies since 1880) and Shayna (16,272 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shanae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,979 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,315 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,045 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,318 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,160 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,613 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,130 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,834 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,804 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,374 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,630 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,291 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,639 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,516 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,726 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,031 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,473 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,385 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,644 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1992 | 336 | #663 | — | — |
| 1991 | 409 | #572 | — | — |
| 1990 | 307 | #691 | — | — |
| 1989 | 204 | #903 | — | — |
| 1988 | 196 | #896 | — | — |
| 1987 | 166 | #964 | — | — |
| 1986 | 170 | #938 | — | — |
| 1985 | 136 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1982 | 85 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,734 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,962 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,644 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).