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Shenoah

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Shenoah has been given to 13 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 1998, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Shenoah, 1998

1 in 460,000

Shenoah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shenoah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shenoah means

Shenoah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shenoah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Shenoah between 1991 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #10,984 in 1998.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shenoah?

Shenoah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 460,000
8 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only
1 in 221,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
318,605 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shenoah 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 1998 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 318,605 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenoah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shenoahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenoah was born before 1998 — so the typical Shenoah is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
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1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Shenoah 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (8)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,984
1998

Spellings of Shenoah

Shenoah is not the most common spelling — Shena is, with 20.4% against Shenoah'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.

Shenoah around the world

Where Shenoah 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.

  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shenoah 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
#10,984
1998
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shenoah

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

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Sibling names for Shenoah

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

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