Chauntae
Chauntae was last recorded in 1995, when 6 babies were given it; 126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chauntae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chauntae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,067, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1979, the peak
Chauntae peaked in 1979, when 14 girls were given it, #4,878 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #12,067 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,066 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,471 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,415 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,609 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,441 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,938 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,689 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,262 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,197 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | #7,584 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,302 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,878 | 8.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,867 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,523 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chauntae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chauntae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chauntae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chauntae, and how old are they?
An estimated 122 Americans named Chauntae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 37 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 126 people named Chauntae (126 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,442 babies since 1880, Chauntae is the seventh most given (1.7% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chauntae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chauntae and names like it
- Compare Chauntae and ChanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChauntae peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Chauntae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chauntae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.