girls:
2.7k births since 1971
#3346 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1971
#5191 (33rd percentile)
The name Shaneka is the #5,191 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,686 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 32.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,346 (41.4% percentile) for all time with 2,686 births since 1971.
Shaneka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Shaneka is available in 36 out of the 38 years between 1971 and 2008. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shaneka reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 20.5% percentile (ranked #616) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 92 births per million (ranked 20.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaneka".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shaneka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Shaneka is pronounced as shuh-NEE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-NEH-kuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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