Shanaya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Shanaya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Shanaya: Recorded since 1996, it reached #448 in 2017, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#448highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#2165
1999	#1805
2000	#1995
2001	#1617
2002	#1784
2003	#1224
2004	#1836
2005	#1500
2006	#1983
2007	#1573
2008	#1641
2009	#1752
2010	#1294
2011	#1327
2012	#1130
2013	#616
2014	#563
2015	#532
2016	#503
2017	#448
2018	#497
2019	#682
2020	#589
2021	#699
2022	#481
2023	#627
2024	#696

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #696 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #448 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Shanaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,095 births with the name.

Shanaya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Shanaya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#448 (2017)	#696 (2024)	28 of 29	1,095 (1996–2024)	98 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2016)	#736 (2024)	#885 (2025)	5 of 10	17 (2016–2025)	4 (2016)

Shanaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Shanaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000s	131	10 of 10	13
2010s	626	10 of 10	63
2020sbusiest	319	5 of 10	64

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 64 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 36, from 30 to 66.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Shanaya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #448 in England and Wales in 2017.

Shanaya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#696	54	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#627	59	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#481	86	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#699	54	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#589	66	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#682	57	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#497	86	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#448	98	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#503	86	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#532	81	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#563	75	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#616	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1130	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1294	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #448, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 98 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Shan · #414, 23y
Shana · #377, 29y
Shane · #3, 72y
Shani · #615, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hira · #448, 30y
Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y
Yan · #448, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Faruq · #448, 11y
Hira · #448, 30y
Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y

Shanaya was ranked #448 in England and Wales · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Shanaya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Shanaya without appearing here.

Shanaya moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3795 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1500 and #3970.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1617 and #3998.
Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1784 and #4137.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3795 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1805 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Shanaya

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #682 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #589 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2017 they stood at #448 and #499 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #497 and #484.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1983 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1573 and #1573.

Moved the opposite way to Shanaya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Shanaya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shanaya went from #3795 to #696 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #448 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Shanaya

Shanaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shanaya across 2 official records

Shanaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Shanaya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Shanaya at a glance

Shanaya across 2 official records

Shanaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Shanaya

Shanaya and the names beside it

Shanaya moved ahead of

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