Shanya
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanya has been given to 2,156 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2003, with 182 recorded.
Babies named Shanya, 2024
1 in 478,000
Shanya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shanya?
Shanya 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 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanya 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanya was born before 2004 — so the typical Shanya is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 62.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,156
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (1,354).
Is Shanya 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2003 (182)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shanya
Shanya is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 15.1% against Shanya's 0.28%.
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 Shanya is used
Across 1910–2025, Shanya was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 106,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 25,000
- 2Florida1 in 33,333
- 3Georgia1 in 33,333
- 4Maryland1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6Virginia1 in 50,000
- 7Alabama1 in 100,000
- 8Illinois1 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. Shanya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shanya around the world
Where Shanya 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 & Wales2000–2018#5,666in 2018
- France2000–2018#5,334in 2018
- Canada1996–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1998–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shanya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shanya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shanya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.