Shanetta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanetta

The Social Security Administration has registered 913 babies named Shanetta between 1969 and 2002, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 54 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanetta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 414 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shanetta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanetta in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanetta 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 913 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.