Shanice
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ʃəˈniːs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Shanice is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 8,381 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 6.6K
- GYGuyana1 in 7.4K
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)
- Record sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,381 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Shanice
- English:/ʃəˈniːs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Cited for this meaning 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 | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Shanice | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Shanice | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 5 | Shanice | 156 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Shanice | 36 |
| JM Jamaica | #173 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Shanice | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 102 | 1 in 7.4K | 102 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 26 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 35 | — | 7 |
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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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 van de Sandenb. 1992NLDutch footballer
- Shanice Williamsb. 1996USAmerican actress
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
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).
- How do you pronounce Shanice?
- In English /ʃəˈniːs/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Shanice?
- 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. After it come Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Shanice a male or female name?
- Shanice is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2023) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- 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.
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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” — ranked 2779th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.