Meaning not yet researched.
Shani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #665 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #665 in 1969; #12,980 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,980 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #665.
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Shani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #665 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 223 (1969).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Shani, making it the 12,980th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,372 places from #6,608 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 18 girls named Shani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #665, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 223. For comparison, it was #4,967 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shani in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 4,542 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,435 babies named Shani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 144 US girls were named Shani; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 21. 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 Shania (15,814 babies since 1880), Shaniya (6,541 babies since 1880), Shanya (2,156 babies since 1880) and Shaniah (1,936 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 Shani 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 | #12,980 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,926 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,028 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,883 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,380 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,322 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,267 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,945 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,220 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,115 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,859 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,567 | 5 | #11,845 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1995 | 79 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1992 | 142 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1990 | 101 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,733 | 6 | #7,112 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1983 | 94 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1982 | 90 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1981 | 98 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1979 | 143 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1978 | 126 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1977 | 142 | #976 | — | — |
| 1976 | 130 | #985 | — | — |
| 1975 | 148 | #895 | 6 | #5,350 |
| 1974 | 162 | #827 | — | — |
| 1973 | 114 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1972 | 113 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1971 | 175 | #804 | — | — |
| 1970 | 176 | #797 | — | — |
| 1969 | 223 | #665 | — | — |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,447 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,447 | — | — |
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).