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Shiniqua

Girls' name

Possibly novelty, through Shaniqua

Shiniqua has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 20 recorded.

Babies named Shiniqua, 1995

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shiniqua: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly novelty, through Shaniqua

coinages

What Shiniqua means

Shiniqua belongs to the name family reached through Shiniqua → Shaniqua. Its meaning is “novelty”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shiniqua is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Shiniqua is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shaniqua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Shiniqua between 1975 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1990; its best national rank was #4,840 in 1990.

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 Shiniqua?

Shiniqua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shiniqua 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 1995 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiniqua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shiniquas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiniqua was born before 1990 — so the typical Shiniqua is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Shiniqua 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (20)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,840
1990

Spellings of Shiniqua

Shiniqua is not the most common spelling — Shaniqua is, with 51.3% against Shiniqua's 0.95%.

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.

Shiniqua 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
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Best rank ever
#4,840
1990
Peak year
1990
20 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shiniqua

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

ShinequaShivanyaShiphrahShivikaShivanshiShirlenaShirondaShivonneShivyaShiaraShirrellShivangiShiffyShirlineShirlynnShiloahShikitaShiasiaShizuyeShilondaShirletteShikaraShivaunShikira

Sibling names for Shiniqua

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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