Shante
Shante was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 6,030 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,820 Americans named Shante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 35 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shante?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,042, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
375 babies in 1990, the peak
Shante peaked in 1990, when 375 babies were given it (368 girls, #612 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #11,042 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,611 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,063 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,815 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,879 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,542 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,070 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,359 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,861 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,319 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 16 | #8,031 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,526 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,404 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,470 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,916 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,274 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,038 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,664 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,924 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,640 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,840 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 95 | #1,621 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,231 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 151 | #1,173 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 251 | #801 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 224 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 256 | #800 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 368 | #612 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 319 | #646 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 325 | #616 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 287 | #658 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 329 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 361 | #550 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 185 | #837 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 173 | #879 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 181 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 201 | #803 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 195 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 192 | #822 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 232 | #686 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 199 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 101 | #1,151 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,373 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,469 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,378 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,725 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,898 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,626 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,030 Americans recorded as Shante, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shante, and how old are they?
5,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,030 Americans ever recorded as Shante. The median Shante alive today is 39 years old; half are between 35 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 5,003 people named Shante (4,839 women and girls, 164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34 |
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 Shante born?
The states with the most babies named Shante are New York, California and Illinois, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 619 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 479 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 337 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 326 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 313 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 227 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 218 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 208 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 197 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 192 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Shante is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shante is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1964 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shante 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, Shante is the most given (27% 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 Shante
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 Shante and names like it
- Compare Shante and ShantaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShante peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shante since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shante.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shante alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.