Shanae
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Shanae is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Shanae mean?
Irish
A female given name from Irish.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Shanae a girl's or a boy's name?
Shanae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shanae in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 34 girls.
Half of all the girls named Shanae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shanae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 22 | #1,505 |
| 2012 | 23 | #1,474 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 22 | #1,475 |
| 2009 | 17 | #1,691 |
| 2008 | 31 | #1,064 |
| 2007 | 34 | #963 |
| 2006 | 33 | #955 |
| 2005 | 27 | #1,022 |
| 2004 | 22 | #1,154 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,317 |
| 2002 | 26 | #962 |
| 2001 | 11 | #1,723 |
| 2000 | 24 | #987 |
| 1999 | 13 | #1,493 |
| 1998 | 19 | #1,158 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Shanae in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Shanae, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 1991, with 409 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
2025 had more girls named Shanae than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Shanae in the US since 1880 were born between 1986 and 1992, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shanae in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,264 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,114 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,383 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,627 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,803 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,932 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,886 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,656 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,928 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,304 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,836 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,407 |
| 1992 | 336 | #662 |
| 1991 | 409 | #568 |
| 1990 | 307 | #689 |
| 1989 | 204 | #898 |
| 1988 | 196 | #892 |
| 1987 | 166 | #960 |
| 1986 | 170 | #933 |
| 1985 | 136 | #1,074 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,216 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,585 |
| 1982 | 85 | #1,429 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,568 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,964 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,857 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,962 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,423 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,601 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,612 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,433 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,014 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,543 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,650 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,412 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,455 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,014 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,041 |
Names like Shanae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Summer, Erin, Jasmine, Aisha, Yasmin, Keira, Maya, Safa, Sasha, Cara, Salma, Alisha
Names related to Shanae
Sana, Shanaya, Shaan, Shania, Sihana, Shauna, Shani, Suhana, Shayna, Shaina, Shyanne, Shayne, Shaniya
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shanae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shanae, updated 20 October 2026.