Shenika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenika has been given to 1,839 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 1982, with 122 recorded.
Babies named Shenika, 2004
1 in 764,000
Shenika 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shenika?
Shenika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shenikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenika was born before 1983 — so the typical Shenika is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 52.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,839
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (971).
Is Shenika 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 1982 (122)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shenika
Shenika is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 67.6% against Shenika's 0.52%.
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 Shenika is used
Across 1910–2025, Shenika was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 83,248 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 25,000
- 2Georgia1 in 25,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 4Alabama1 in 33,333
- 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 7South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8Tennessee1 in 50,000
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. Shenika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shenika around the world
Where Shenika 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 & Wales1997–2005#4,798in 2005
- Canada1991–1993#2,149in 1993
- South Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shenika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.