Shanine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanine has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1985, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Shanine, 1992
1 in 768,000
Shanine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shanine?
Shanine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanine was born before 1979 — so the typical Shanine is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 53.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 54
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Shanine 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 1985 (10)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shanine
Shanine is not the most common spelling — Janine is, with 16.0% against Shanine's 0.03%.
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.
Shanine around the world
Where Shanine 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 & Wales1996–1999#2,770in 1999
- South Australia1971–1971#724in 1971
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.