Shanita
Recorded 1959–2008 · United States
Shanita was most popular in 1978, when 184 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,393 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,450 people named Shanita.
Shanita over time
How old is the name Shanita?
Shanita first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1959, which makes it about 66 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 67 years since. It was last recorded in 2008.
How many people are named Shanita?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,450 American births named Shanita between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,331 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shanita in 2025?
Shanita was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Shanita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shanita is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,450 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shanita?
Roughly 3,331 Americans named Shanita are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 43 years old, and half are between 37 and 48. That is a narrow band: Shanita arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shanita is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org