Shanice
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəniːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shanice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,381 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shanice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,381 | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Shanice | 325 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Shanice | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Shanice | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 5 | Shanice | 156 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Shanice | 36 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shanice | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 725 | 1 in 24K | 725 | Shanice | 42 |
| JM Jamaica | #173 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Shanice | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 102 | 1 in 7.4K | 102 | — | 3 |
8,381 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shaniceb. 1973USAmerican singer-songwriter, actress and dancer
- Shanice Marcelleb. 1990CACanadian volleyball player
- Shanice van de Sandenb. 1992NLDutch footballer
- Shanice Bantonb. 1992CACanadian actress
- Shanice Jordynb. 1992USAmerican model
- Shanice Craftb. 1993DEGerman athletics competitor
- Shanice Williamsb. 1994GBTurks and Caicos model
- Shanice Williamsb. 1996USAmerican actress
- Shanice Parkerb. 1998AUAustralian rugby union and rugby league player
- Shanice Alfredb. 2001GYGuyanese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.4K | #2,779 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 725 | #1,595 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 519 | #3,134 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 102 | #492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #2,779 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2014 | 5 | #603 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2011 | 3 | #444 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shanice mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Shanice have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Shanice, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shanice.
- How do you pronounce Shanice?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəniːs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shanice a male or female name?
- Shanice is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Shanice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,381 people named Shanice in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Shanice compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Shanice is the 173rd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shanice?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaniceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shanice” — the 173rd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.