Shenouda
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenouda has been given to 88 babies in the U.S. since 2012. 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 2012, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Shenouda, 2021
1 in 678,000
Shenouda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shenouda?
Shenouda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenouda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenouda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shenoudas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenouda was born before 2014 — so the typical Shenouda is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 94.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 88
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 94.3% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Shenouda 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 2012 (21)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Where Shenouda is used
Across 1910–2025, Shenouda was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 385,887 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shenouda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shenouda around the world
Where Shenouda 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.
- Canada2014–2014#2,672in 2014
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shenouda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenouda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenouda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.