girls:
3.5k births since 1959
#2948 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1959
#4661 (40th percentile)
The name Shanita is the #4,661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,450 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 39.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,948 (48.4% percentile) for all time with 3,450 births since 1959.
Shanita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for girls in 1959). Birth data for Shanita is available in 47 out of the 50 years between 1959 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, Shanita reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 23.7% percentile (ranked #577) with 112 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 112 births per million (ranked 23.7% 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 "Shanita".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shanita is pronounced as shuh-NEE-tuh, which has 3 syllables.
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