Chaunte — girls' name

What the Data Says About Chaunte

The Social Security Administration has registered 464 babies named Chaunte between 1968 and 2007, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chaunte currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 37 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaunte performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 231 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Chaunte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Chaunte in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaunte in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 464 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.