Shaneen
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaneen has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1981, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Shaneen, 1995
1 in 610,000
Shaneen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaneen?
Shaneen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 610,000
- 6 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 293,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 422,850 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaneen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 422,850 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaneen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaneens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaneen was born before 1981 — so the typical Shaneen is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 321
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (140).
Is Shaneen 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (23)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shaneen
Shaneen is not the most common spelling — Shannon is, with 78.0% against Shaneen's 0.08%.
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 Shaneen is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaneen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,096,891 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
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. Shaneen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaneen around the world
Where Shaneen 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 & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
- Northern Ireland1998–1998#261in 1998
- Canada1993–1993#1,917in 1993
- South Australia1981–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shaneen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaneen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaneen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.