Shantee
Shantee was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 489 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shantee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shantee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,005, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1986, the peak
Shantee peaked in 1986, when 30 girls were given it, #3,116 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #20,005 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,574 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,442 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,386 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,385 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,098 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,133 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,558 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,428 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,521 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 29 | #3,693 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,490 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,561 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,152 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,116 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,820 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,163 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,087 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,836 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,516 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,482 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,047 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,922 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,828 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,486 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,010 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,403 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,763 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,394 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,488 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,256 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,449 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shantee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shantee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shantee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shantee, and how old are they?
An estimated 470 Americans named Shantee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 37 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 445 people named Shantee (430 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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).
How common is the spelling Shantee?
Shantee is a less common spelling of Shanti: SSA has recorded 489 Shantee and 2,025 Shanti since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,532 babies since 1880, Shantee is the eighth most given (2.5% 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 Shantee
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 Shantee and names like it
- Compare Shantee and ShantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShantee peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shantee since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shantee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shantee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.