Shenita
About 1,550 American babies have been named Shenita since 1954, most of them around 1978. It has not appeared in the national data since 2000. About 1,500 Shenitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shenita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,550
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1978
- Best rank
- 1,374th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1954
How old the living Shenitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,550 babies given the name since 1954, about 1,500 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Shenita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shenita is most concentrated in North Carolina (7.3×), Georgia (6.1×), Louisiana (5.0×), Alabama (4.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1978
The most popular girls’ names the year Shenita peaked:
Related names
Shenita against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.