Shanayah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanayah has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Shanayah, 2024
1 in 557,000
Shanayah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shanayah?
Shanayah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanayah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanayah was born before 2007 — so the typical Shanayah is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 76
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Shanayah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (8)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shanayah
Shanayah is not the most common spelling — Saniyah is, with 19.0% against Shanayah's 0.20%.
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.
Shanayah around the world
Where Shanayah 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 & Wales2009–2017#5,765in 2017
- Canada2019–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.