In 2025, 28 US girls were named Shaniya, making it the 4,863rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 265 places from #5,128 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 26 girls named Shaniya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #567, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 517. For comparison, it was #1,933 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaniya in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 6,541 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,856 babies named Shaniya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 479 US girls were named Shaniya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shania (15,814 babies since 1880), Shani (4,542 babies since 1880), Shaniyah (3,057 babies since 1880) and Shanya (2,156 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zhaniyah and Shaniayah are summarised on this page.