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Shonice
How to Pronounce Shonice
Pronounced shuh-NEESE /ΚΙΛniΛs/Medium
Meaning: Shonice is a modern African American coinage that blends a Shon- opening with the graceful -nice ending heard in Denice and Charnice. Its appeal lies in that soft, French-flavored close rather than a separate literal meaning.Low
Popularity in the U.S. Β· SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880βpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Shonice is a modern American coinage combining the popular Shon-/Sha- opening with the -nice ending that names like Denice made fashionable. Black American families in the nineteen-seventies coined many such names, prizing their soft, French-sounding close. Shonice appears on United States birth records from the early nineteen-seventies.
It was always rare, given to only a handful of girls a year even at its high in the early nineteen-nineties, so a girl named Shonice then would be in her thirties today. It reads as a coinage of its era rather than a revival.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Shonice mean?
It is a modern coinage joining a Shon- opening to the -nice ending of Denice and Charnice; it has no separate dictionary meaning.
How do you pronounce Shonice?
It's said shuh-NEESE /ΚΙΛniΛs/, two syllables with the stress on the last.
Is Shonice a boy or girl name?
Shonice is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Shonice?
It has always been rare, given to only a handful of girls a year at its peak in the early nineteen-nineties.