girls:
9.6k births since 1968
#1648 (71st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1988
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.6k births since 1968
#2747 (65th percentile)
The name Shanice is the #2,747 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,577 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 64.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,648 (71.2% percentile) for all time with 9,572 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1988.
Shanice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Shanice is available in 55 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.
The name Shanice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shanice reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 81.7% percentile (ranked #158) with 927 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 927 births per million (ranked 81.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Shanice ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Shanice reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #726) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanice".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shanice is pronounced as shuh-NEES, which has 2 syllables.
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