girls:
5.6k births since 1970
#2224 (61st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1982
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
5.6k births since 1970
#3627 (53rd percentile)
The name Shanika is the #3,627 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,601 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 53.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,224 (61.1% percentile) for all time with 5,590 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1982.
Shanika first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Shanika is available in 44 out of the 47 years between 1970 and 2016 (44 years for girls and 2 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 Shanika has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shanika reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 44.7% percentile (ranked #435) with 238 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 238 births per million (ranked 44.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Shanika reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanika".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shanika. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Shanika is pronounced as shuh-NEE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-NIH-kuh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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