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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shanga

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

36

peak year 1979

More common than

46%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1979
16 births
Best rank
#2,880
in 1979
First recorded
1976
#5,495 that year
Last recorded
1983
no later published record
Average birth year
1979
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
4 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197916#2,880Peak
  2. 19788#4,496
  3. 19766#5,495
  4. 19836#6,100

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,880 in 1979 · peak births 16 in 1979

Boys and girls

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

● 88% boys■ 12% girls

36 boys · 5 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 Shanga has ranked, decade by decade

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