Meaning not yet researched.
Shanay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #7,658 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #7,658 in 2023; #13,593 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanay in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,593 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #7,658.
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Shanay: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #7,658 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 11 (2023).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Shanay, making it the 13,593rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 330 places from #13,923 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Shanay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #7,658, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 11. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Shanay in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,154, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 153. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanay in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 1,465 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 602 babies named Shanay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 50 US boys were named Shanay; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys 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 Shanay 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 | — | — | 5 | #13,593 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,923 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,658 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,093 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,431 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #13,822 |
| 2018 | — | — | 6 | #11,913 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,934 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,126 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,125 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,955 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,004 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,461 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,288 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,681 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,958 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,585 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,748 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,518 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,363 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,659 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,825 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,333 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,184 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1992 | 153 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1991 | 133 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1990 | 135 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,149 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,402 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,500 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,925 | — | — |
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).