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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shanay

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,415

peak year 1992

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1992
153 births
Best rank
#1,154
in 1992
First recorded
1970
#6,925 that year
Last recorded
2012
no later published record
Average birth year
1989
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
40 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1992153#1,154Peak
  2. 1990135#1,235
  3. 1991133#1,268
  4. 1989115#1,347
  5. 198893#1,475

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,154 in 1992 · peak births 153 in 1992

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 3% boys■ 97% girls

50 boys · 1,415 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shanay has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.