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Shanae

#12,975 in 2025Girls' name

Anglicization of Sinéad

Shanae has been given to 3,471 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #12,975 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 409 recorded.

Babies named Shanae, 2025

1 in 474,000

Shanae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shanae: meaning, origin, and history

Anglicization of Sinéad

Irish

What Shanae means

Shanae is a anglicization of Sinéad.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicization of Irish Sinéad q.v. based on its modern Irish pronunciation. Doublet of Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Juanita, and Sinead.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Shanae (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Shanae is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Shanae comes through Irish Sinéad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sinéad, Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Juanita and Sinead.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Shanae is pronounced /ʃəˈneɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,471 girls were recorded with the name Shanae between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 409 in 1991; its best national rank was #572 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,155 in 2020 to #12,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,829 in 2015 to #12,975 in 2025.

How common is Shanae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,975
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shanae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shanaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanae was born before 1990 — so the typical Shanae is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (1,512).

Is Shanae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,335
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,820
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−146
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.7%
Peak was 1991 (409)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#572
1991

Spellings of Shanae

Shanae is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 10.5% against Shanae's 0.80%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shanae is used

Across 1910–2025, Shanae was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 71,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 12,500
  2. 2Utah1 in 20,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shanae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shanae around the world

Where Shanae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2009–2024
    #6,205
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shanae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,820
Best rank ever
#572
1991
Peak year
1991
409 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,471
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Shanae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shanae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shanae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrittnyPorshaBrittaneyShaquanaJaleesaJericaKanishaShakiaCassondraJerricaDominqueBrittnie

Sibling names for Shanae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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