Shaniah
#11,773 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaniah has been given to 1,936 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #11,773 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 148 recorded.
Babies named Shaniah, 2025
1 in 414,000
Shaniah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaniah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,773
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaniah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaniah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaniahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaniah was born before 2004 — so the typical Shaniah is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,936
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (1,036).
Is Shaniah 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
- +1,490
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,873
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,775
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 5.4%
- Peak was 2001 (148)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shaniah
Shaniah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 70.2% against Shaniah's 0.29%.
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 Shaniah is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaniah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 147,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 33,333
- 2Georgia1 in 50,000
- 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 4Alabama1 in 100,000
- 5Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 6Illinois1 in 100,000
- 7Michigan1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Shaniah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaniah around the world
Where Shaniah 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 & Wales1997–2023#4,710in 2023
- Canada1995–1996#1,815in 1996
- South Australia1997–2012#871in 2012
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.
Shaniah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaniah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaniah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.