Meaning not yet researched.
Shaniyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,148 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,148 in 2010; #5,374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaniyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,374 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,148.
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Shaniyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,148 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 223 (2007).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Shaniyah, making it the 5,374th most common girls’ name of the year, down 245 places from #5,129 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 26 girls named Shaniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,148, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 223, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,255 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaniyah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 9 babies. In all, 3,057 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,659 babies named Shaniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 410 US girls were named Shaniyah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 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.
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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 Shaniyah 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 | 24 | #5,374 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,526 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,397 | — | — |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,342 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2010 | 213 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2009 | 210 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2007 | 223 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2006 | 186 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2005 | 199 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,352 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,419 | — | — |
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).