first name
SHANIKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,484 people named Shanika, 90.7% reported their origin as Black, 3.2% as two or more races and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shanika peaked in 1979, when 410 babies got the name.
At least 5,610 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Shanika by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,198. The largest share of babies named Shanika, 67.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Shanika is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shanika has been most common in Maryland (3.8×), South Carolina (3.1×), and Florida (3.1×), and least common in Texas (0.55×).
4,531 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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2 other first names also have 4,484 people.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shanika, most common first.
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