Shenise
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenise has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 36 recorded.
Babies named Shenise, 2008
1 in 562,000
Shenise 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shenise?
Shenise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 562,000
- 7 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 389,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenise sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shenises were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenise was born before 1986 — so the typical Shenise is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 39.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 467
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Shenise 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 1990 (36)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shenise
Shenise is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 91.7% against Shenise's 0.11%.
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 Shenise is used
Across 1910–2025, Shenise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,279,324 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
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. Shenise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shenise around the world
Where Shenise 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 & Wales1998–2003#3,594in 2003
- Canada1991–1995#1,684in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shenise by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenise
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenise
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.