Shantae
Shantae was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,589 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Shantae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shantae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shantae is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shantae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,609, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1986, the peak
Shantae peaked in 1986, when 87 girls were given it, #1,464 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,609 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,455 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,654 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,746 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,468 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,500 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,009 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,167 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,289 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,862 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | #7,659 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,956 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,420 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,122 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,796 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,164 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,757 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,529 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,628 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,975 | 38.0 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,866 | 40.5 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,020 | 35.3 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,864 | 38.5 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,832 | 38.2 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,564 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,464 | 50.7 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,518 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,956 | 31.5 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,880 | 33.5 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,019 | 30.7 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,337 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,930 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,676 | 41.7 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,649 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,713 | 39.8 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,164 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,947 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,670 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,734 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,856 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,348 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,814 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,448 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantae has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shantae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantae, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,589 Americans ever recorded as Shantae. The median Shantae alive today is 39 years old; half are between 34 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,465 people named Shantae (1,438 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 382 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 215 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shantae born?
The states with the most babies named Shantae are New York, Florida and Illinois, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 104 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 65 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 29 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shantae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,635 babies since 1880, Shantae is the sixth most given (7.0% 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 Shantae
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 Shantae and names like it
- Compare Shantae and ShanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShantae peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shantae since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shantae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.