Meaning not yet researched.
Shaniah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,237 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,237 in 1996; #11,777 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaniah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,777 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,237.
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Shaniah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,237 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 148 (2001).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Shaniah, making it the 11,777th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,491 places from #13,268 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 7 girls named Shaniah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,237, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 148, in 2001. For comparison, it was #6,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaniah in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 6 babies. In all, 1,936 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,036 babies named Shaniah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 153 US girls were named Shaniah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 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), Shani (4,542 babies since 1880) and Shaniyah (3,057 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 Shaniah 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 | 8 | #11,777 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,268 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,035 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,460 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,382 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,905 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,763 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,867 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #6,000 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,768 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,683 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,405 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,647 | — | — |
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).