Shenita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenita has been given to 1,550 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1978, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Shenita, 2000
1 in 756,000
Shenita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shenita?
Shenita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 756,000
- 5 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 523,812 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shenitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenita was born before 1978 — so the typical Shenita is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,550
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (603).
Is Shenita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (85)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shenita
Shenita is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 62.1% against Shenita's 0.40%.
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 Shenita is used
Across 1910–2025, Shenita was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 159,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in 100,000
- 6Illinois1 in 100,000
- 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 8Virginia1 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. Shenita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shenita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.