According to this site (which claims to use Social Security Administration data), there were 15 Shaniquas in 1971, so they would be older than you.
If there are fewer than five people with the name, the site doesn’t list it, so it is possible that there was someone with the name Shaniqua prior to 1971. The only thing we know for sure is that there weren’t more than five of them in any one year prior to 1971.
Jared Ingersoll signed the Constitution as a representative from Pennsylvania. His father was also a Jared and born in 1722. Not quite as old as you asked for, but one I knew of before because he’s a distant relative.
In my data source I have 5 living ladies named Shaniqua (only checked that spelling) age 90 or older, the oldest of which is 96. The oldest is in Alabama, 1 in Mississippi, and 3 in Georgia.
I show 4,448 Shaniquas nationally, but I don’t have records for anyone under 18.
I did some deeper dives as most consumer level data has models on things like age, so if they are missing the date of birth, they’ll use other features to guess at age. I’ve found some of those five in other sources that disagree about the age, so I’d take them with a grain of salt. I do find a 65 year old that seemed to be universally agreed upon, but I think that’s enough diving for Shaniqua for today.
I hope that after 104 replies, it’s not too soon to interject some humour:
Mrs May is a fictional teacher whose problems with the English Education system pop up occasionally on FB. She seems to have more than her fair share of unusual names in her class of infants as well.
On Monday, Mrs May spent her 24 hour bank holiday period undertaking 33 hours of marking and lesson planning, whilst simultaneously genning up on the latest overnight amendments those cockwombles running the DfE have made to the National Curriculum.
On Tuesday, Mrs May was required to break up a full on fight in the playground between Lucozade and Elastoplast, who were using their penises as light sabres.
On Wednesday, Mrs May received sixteen minutes’ notice that a maths inspector would be coming to inspect her teaching that day. During the maths inspector’s inspection, Ibuprofen insisted that three plus three equalled thirty-three, and -0@ (pronounced Dash-oh-ah) took a dump on all thirty of the class iPads, carefully coiling it out of him like he was icing cakes as a contestant in the Great British Bake Off.
On Thursday, no less than nine different sets of parents, none of whom had obtained a teaching qualification in their life, queued up at the end of the day to tell Mrs May why they thought her methods of teaching were ineffective, ignoring the primary issue at hand, which is that their children in a classroom setting are frequently dicks.
“I am going home to drink wine,” Mrs May announces decisively on Thursday night to Ms Smith, who is a newly qualified teacher.
“But it’s a school night,” gasps Ms Smith in horror.
“Of COURSE it is a school night,” says Mrs May. “Why do you think I need the wine?”
Ms Smith is still an NQT. [newly qualified teacher]
Ms Smith will learn.
104 replies and 14 years.
Indeed; from the link provided:
I do not understand a single word of this sentence.
I will translate for you foreigners:
Finding out about the latest overnight amendments those *esteemed civil servants running the Department of Education have made
*For esteemed civil servants, read incompetent paper pushers.
About a month ago CGP Grey posted a nifty, fun look at the history of the name Tiffany; its a lighthearted look at the evolution of the name as it moved from its medieval origins into new times and places:
Then he posted a short humorous video where he read from the written-for-hire genealogy of the Tiffany family:
A few weeks later he posted a longer, darker video where, because of a poem, he attempts to clarify some things about Tiffany (and admittedly fails):
TL: DW: Turns out it can be really hard to trace a name to its origin.
Thanks, I was going to post the same videos.
Brian
I have dealt with professionally several members of a family with first names consisting of only three capital letters. That’s their legal birth name. It’s a very big family and other siblings have more normal names.