Meaning not yet researched.
Shanice: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #162 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #162 in 1992; #12,981 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shanice in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,981 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #162.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Shanice: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #162 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 1,859 (1992).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Shanice, making it the 12,981st most common girls’ name of the year, up 288 places from #13,269 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Shanice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #162, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,859. For comparison, it was #4,839 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shanice in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 9,591 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,155 babies named Shanice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 152 US girls were named Shanice; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 27. 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 Shaniece (2,005 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shaunice, Shaneice and Shanece 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shaunice (609), Shaneice (485), Shanece (357), Shanyce (267), Shanik (206), Shaneece (98), Shauniece (70), Shannice (48), Shanike (17), Shaunece (11), Shanniece (6), Shaunyce (6).
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 Shanice 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 | #12,981 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,269 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,512 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,184 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,200 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,179 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,367 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,787 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,296 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,344 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2000 | 174 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1999 | 310 | #729 | — | — |
| 1998 | 214 | #962 | — | — |
| 1997 | 252 | #822 | — | — |
| 1996 | 319 | #686 | — | — |
| 1995 | 481 | #509 | — | — |
| 1994 | 782 | #342 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,345 | #213 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,859 | #162 | — | — |
| 1991 | 304 | #700 | — | — |
| 1990 | 289 | #725 | — | — |
| 1989 | 537 | #452 | — | — |
| 1988 | 938 | #270 | 5 | #8,313 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,297 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,810 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,967 | — | — |
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).