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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shani

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#12,980

down −6,372 places

2025 births

7

down −11 births

All-time births

4,525

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1969
223 births
Best rank
#665
in 1969
First recorded
1962
#6,447 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1986
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
64 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1969223#665Peak
  2. 1970176#797
  3. 1971175#804
  4. 1974162#827
  5. 1975148#895

Rank over time

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

Best rank #665 in 1969 · peak births 223 in 1969

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

17 boys · 4,525 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 Shani has ranked, decade by decade

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