Shani
A girls’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning saturn; the planet saturn in hindu astrology.
Shani by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Shani. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 223 babies in 1969, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
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