Shauniqua

Girls' name

Possibly novelty, through Shaniqua

Shauniqua has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1993, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Shauniqua, 1993

1 in 471,000

Shauniqua over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shauniqua: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly novelty, through Shaniqua

coinages

What Shauniqua means

Shauniqua belongs to the name family reached through Shauniqua → Shaniqua. Its meaning is “novelty”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shauniqua is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Shauniqua is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shaniqua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Shauniqua between 1991 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1993; its best national rank was #10,416 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Shauniqua?

Shauniqua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 471,000; 8 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 226,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 326,537 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shauniqua sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 326,537 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shauniqua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shauniquas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shauniqua was born before 1992 — so the typical Shauniqua is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 19; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Shauniqua 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 1993 (8)
Years since peak: 32; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,416; 1993

Spellings of Shauniqua

Shauniqua is not the most common spelling — Shaniqua is, with 54.4% against Shauniqua's 0.20%.

Shaniqua54.4%5,117
Shanequa19.9%1,874
Shanique18.0%1,689
Sheniqua7.5%703
Shauniqua0.20%19

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.

Shauniqua by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,416; 1993
Peak year: 1993; 8 that year
First recorded: 1991
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 19
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Shauniqua

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Shauniqua

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kaylene Jacquelynn Katlin Jessenia Brea Krysta Nikole Kalyn

For a brother

Rosendo Brandan Tre Tylor Eloy Raheem Denton Coty

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