Meaning not yet researched.
Shanaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,100 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,100 in 2016; #1,988 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,988 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,100.
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Shanaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,100 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 234 (2016).
In 2025, 97 US girls were named Shanaya, making it the 1,988th most common girls’ name of the year, up 129 places from #2,117 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 91 girls named Shanaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,100, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 234. For comparison, it was #1,385 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanaya in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 3,149 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,368 babies named Shanaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,485 US girls were named Shanaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 234. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shanaya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,148 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shana (29,748 babies since 1880), Shanna (28,372 babies since 1880), Shanae (3,471 babies since 1880) and Shanay (1,465 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shanaiya, Shanayah and Zhanaya are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shanaiya (90), Shanayah (76), Zhanaya (5).
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 Shanaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,148 | #350 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,255 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,523 | #1,528 |
| California | 15 | #1,566 | #1,051 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,606 | #1,426 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,667 | #1,806 |
| New York | 7 | #1,805 | #1,128 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 2017 | 213 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2015 | 171 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2013 | 130 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,664 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,399 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,595 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,511 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,803 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,837 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,827 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,804 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,498 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,577 | — | — |
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).