Shenay
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenay has been given to 162 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1990, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Shenay, 1993
1 in 419,000
Shenay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shenay?
Shenay 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 419,000
- 9 of 3,768,729 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1993
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 290,255 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenay sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 290,255 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shenays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenay was born before 1987 — so the typical Shenay is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 162
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (81).
Is Shenay 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 1990 (18)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shenay
Shenay is not the most common spelling — Sherry is, with 39.2% against Shenay'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.
Shenay around the world
Where Shenay 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 & Wales1997–2011#4,764in 2011
- South Australia1991–2003#739in 2003
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.
Shenay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.