Shanille
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanille has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1987, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Shanille, 1994
1 in 743,000
Shanille 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shanille?
Shanille had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 743,000
- 5 of 3,715,972 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 515,144 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanille sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanilles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanille was born before 1993 — so the typical Shanille is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 66.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Shanille 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 1987 (5)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Shanille
Shanille is not the most common spelling — Shanice is, with 28.2% against Shanille's 0.04%.
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.
Shanille around the world
Where Shanille 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.
- South Australia1996–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanille by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanille
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanille
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.